Compiling pymol from subversion for 64bit ubuntu

A step by step guide follows

1) Install subversion to get the subversion repository for pymol

 sudo apt-get install subversion 

2) Get the pymol source from subversion

svn co https://pymol.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/pymol pymol

3) Change into the main pymol directory where the configure script is present. And run configure

./configure

Based on the errors install the dependencies below and then re-run configure

4) The following libraries were installed to satistdy the dependencies on pymol

sudo apt-get install  python2.5-dev

sudo apt-get install libpng12

sudo apt-get install libpng3

sudo apt-get install freeglut3-dev

sudo apt-get install  libttf2

sudo apt-get install  libfreetype6-dev  ( may not be needed)

sudo apt-get install  ftgl-dev

sudo apt-get install  libfreetype6

sudo apt-get install libfreetype6-dev

 sudo apt-get install libxft2

sudo apt-get

5) Run ./config.status to create the Makefile

6) Run make