Re: java

[Egon Willighagen <e.willighagen@science.ru.nl>]

On Thursday 11 January 2007 18:09, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> --- Egon Willighagen <ewilligh@uni-koeln.de> wrote:
> > On Thursday 11 January 2007 17:06, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> I see at
> http://www.java.com/en/download/
> JRE vers. 5.0 update 10
> either as a rpm package (thus, not for debian)
> or self-extracting
> filename "jre-1_5_0_10-linux-i586.bin"
> I must confess I am unfamiliar with installations of
> the latter type of file.

Use the deb java-package to install that .bin version.

> > Classpath 0.9x can run it too, but generally is
> > slower, see [1].
>
> Slower would not be a problem for simply inspecting
> the molecular structure and getting the geometric
> data: angles, dih angles and bond lengths, which is my
> aim.

You can give it a try, but rotation is seriously slow.

> > The deb packages for Jmol 10.00 can be downloaded
> > from:
> >
> > http://debian.wgdd.de/debian/
>
> Unfortunately, it is only version 11 that is said to
> work with NWChem, which is of my present concern (for
> MPQC I am already OK).
> Therefore, can jmol from www.jmol.org
> filename "jmol-11.0.RCA-binary.tar.gz"
> be run on debian i386 etch (or amd64 etch)?

Most certainly with the Sun JVM, but I have not tested it with Classpath yet.

Egon

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