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Commit 4e5b9299 authored by Giovanni Bussi's avatar Giovanni Bussi
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Explain when installing VMD plugins is needed

cc: @gtribello this is the reason why I would keep these instructions here
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\subsection installation-vmdplugins VMD trajectory plugins
If you configure PLUMED with the VMD plugins you will be able to read
many more trajectory formats. To this aim,
PLUMED source code already includes a few selected VMD molfile plugins so as to read a small number
of additional trajectory formats (e.g., dcd, gromacs files, pdb, and amber files).
If you configure PLUMED with the full set of VMD plugins you will be able to read
many more trajectory formats, basically all of those supported by VMD.
To this aim,
you need to download the SOURCE of VMD, which contains
a plugins directory. Adapt build.sh and compile it. At
the end, you should get the molfile plugins compiled as a static
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