Installing VMD with python support on MAC

Question

I have been trying to install VMD1.9.2 on a Macbook with python support but have not been able to. It seems to me that the packaged .dmg file for VMD comes without Python support. I have used the command vmdinfo options to find the options my VMD is installed with and MACOSXX86 FLTKOPENGL FLTK TK ACTC CUDA IMD LIBSBALL LIBTACHYON VRPN NETCDF TCL PTHREADS SILENT this is the result which shows that it does not have Python support. My question- Is there an easy way to add python support rather than compiling from source? I just drag the App after unpacking the .dmg file to Applications folder. Am I doing something wrong while installing it this way? Is there any other way at all?

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Answer 1

Robin Betz has created the vmd-python package. You can install it with conda:

conda install -c conda-forge vmd-python

More informations can be found in the package documentation.