Pointers for installing Molden from source

Linux distributions susch as Redhat, Ubuntu, Centos and probably many more have a machanism to download missing packages form the internet. The program yum implements this mechanism. You must run it as root and you are required to have an internet connection. You need yum to install packages required for compiling molden if they are by default not installed. This includes the gcc, g77 and gfortran compilers, the Xwindows and OpenGL include files and run time libraries.

yum install kernel-headers.i386
            glibc-headers.i386
            gcc.1386
            gcc-gfortran.i386 or gcc-g77.i386
            libX11.i386
            mesa-libGL.i386
            mesa-libGLU.i386
            mesa-libGLU-devel.i386
            libXmu.i386 libXmu-devel.i386

The last package installs a version of libXmu library but forgets to 
create a link with libXmu.so. To remedy this go to the directory /usr/lib
and type:

ln -s libXmu.so.6.2.0 libXmu.so

Now you are ready to compile molden. Untar the source code:

tar -zxvf molden5.4.tar.gz
cd molden5.4

edit the makefile and choose the g77 or gfortran compiler.

make >& make.log



Ubuntu: Using apt-get instead of yum

sudo apt-get install gfortran 
sudo apt-get install libX11-6
sudo apt-get install libX11-dev
sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-glx
sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dev
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install mesa-common-dev
sudo apt-get install libglu1-mesa-dev
sudo apt-get install libxmu-dev
sudo apt-get install makedepend or xutils-dev
sudo apt-get install wget