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How to install Molekel under Ubuntu and Debian (Thanks to Olly)

If you tried to install Molekel under a recent version of Ubuntu or Debian you might have faced some difficulties. Here I report the step by step procedure to get it running. The biggest problem is that Molekel needs the old version of libstdc++6 which isn't in Debian/Ubuntu. All the commands that start with "sudo" are exectuted as root, so you have to get the root passwd before installing Molekel (or get your sysadmin to do it for you).

1. Download molekel4.3.linux.tar.gz or molekel4.3.linux-mesa.tar.gz, after registering on the web-site.
2. Untar with:

   $tar -xvzf molekel4.3.linux.tar.gz (or $tar -xvzf molekel4.3.linux-mesa.tar.gz )

3. Create the Molekel library directory under /usr/local/lib:

   $sudo mkdir /usr/local/lib/molekel/

4. Copy everything from the molekel tarball in the lib/ dir to /usr/local/lib/molekel:

   $sudo cp lib/* /usr/local/lib/molekel/

5. Download libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3
6. Unzip it with:

   $gunzip libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3.gz

7. Move it to /usr/local/lib/:

   $sudo mv libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 /usr/local/lib/

8. Add the path to the library configuration file, if not already present:

   $sudo echo "/usr/local/lib" >> /etc/ld.so.conf

9. Update the library cache, running:

   $sudo ldconfig

10. Go into molekel/bin and run the executable:

    $./molekel4.3.linux