Molden is a program for visualizing molecular strucutre in 3D, molecular density, electron density, and molecule orbitals from the ab initio packages, such as GAUSSIAN, GAMESS-US, GAMESS-UK, Q-Chem, DALTON, etc. the semi-empirical packages Mopac/Ampac. It is free, light, fast, and powerful molecular viewer. Official website of Molden is http://www.cmbi.ru.nl/molden/molden.html
Instruction of installation is following
1. Go to Molden website. http://www.cmbi.ru.nl/molden/molden.html
2. Look at Molden Topics. Click How to get a copy of Molden ?.
3. Click Anonymous FTP.
4. Look at the latest version of molder. The day I post this post, the newest release is molden5.8.tar.gz.
Copy link address to download this source code.
5. Open new terminal on your Linux machine.
6. Download molden source code from (4) using command
wget ftp://ftp.cmbi.ru.nl/pub/molgraph/molden/molden5.8.tar.gz7. Uncompress tar.gz file using command
tar xzvf molden5.8.tar.gz8. Compile Molden using gFortran.
cd molden5.8makeWait for a while until it's finished.
9. An executable of Molden is molden.
10. Try to run Molden (or gMolden), e.g. opening Gaussian output file.
./molden5.8/molden gaussian_output_file.logor
./molden5.8/gmolden gaussian_output_file.logIf you get any error during make ! You can try following suggested commands to solve the problem.
1) Comment # on the line of LIBES, e.g.
#LIBS = -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lm in "/molden5.7/makefile" before make. Then command make again.
2) After make finished, try
install -t /usr/local/bin -m 755 molden gmoldenRangsiman Ketkaew