On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 10:48 PM, Magnus Andersson <magnus.andersson@scilifelab.se> wrote:
> I have found it very straightforward to install PyMOL via the cctbx.python wrapper

Can you explain to a relative Python newbie how this is done?

svn co https://pymol.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/pymol/trunk/pymol
cd pymol
cctbx.python setup.py build
cctbx.python setup.py install

then if you want to be able to launch PyMOL (not just import modules), edit the "pymol" script to replace the Python executable with simply "cctbx.python".

Although it turns out to be slightly more complicated because PyMOL depends on the GLEW library (http://glew.sourceforge.net), but at least that compiles easily.

-Nat