
To retrieve molden source code:

ftp ftp.sience.umcn.nl
Name: anonymous
Passord: your_email_address
ftp> binary
ftp> cd /pub/molgraph/molden
ftp> get molden7.0.tar.Z
ftp> quit

To build molden:

uncompress molden7.0.tar.Z
tar -xvf molden7.0.tar
cd molden7.0

# edit the makefile, activate the lines for your platform, deactivate
# silicon graphics

make >& make.log &

To get ready to run executables for your platform (example for linux):

ftp ftp.cmbi.umcn.nl
Name: anonymous
Passord: your_email_address
ftp> binary
ftp> cd /pub/molgraph/molden/bin
ftp> get molden7.0.ubuntu.64.tar.gz
ftp> quit

bin/gmolden is the opengl molden executable

Now move the molden executable to a directory that is in your search path,
say /usr/local/bin and call it gmolden.exe:

mv bin/gmolden /usr/local/bin/gmolden.exe

The proper setup of molden is to call a wrapper program of gmolden which
sets up the environment variables for the external program such as,
gamess, gaussian, mopac and tinker.

cat <<EOF > /usr/local/bin/gmolden
#!/bin/csh
#
setenv TA_ROOT /compchem/1/sybyl64
setenv TNK_ROOT /compchem/1/tinker
setenv MOPAC_ROOT /compchem/1/mopac93
setenv GAMESS_ROOT /compchem/1/gamess
setenv g16root /compchem/2
#
/usr/local/bin/gmolden.exe $argv
#
EOF

# remember to deactivate the external programs you dont have by putting
# a # in front of its line, make this file executable

chmod ugo+rx /usr/local/bin/gmolden

To run molden simply type:

gmolden

Or:

gmolden file1 file2 .. filen


The example is for linux, but there are many more unix platforms
and also windowsNT/windows95 and freebsd (molden_windows_nt_95.zip
and molden3.6-freebsd)


