If you installed MGLTools using one of our latest standalone installers, then you are all set. If you are using older version of MGLTools or installed it using binary tarballs, then you need to do some additional steps before you can run these scripts. Here is how.

ADT utility scripts are located in MGLToolsPckgs/AutoDockTools/Utilities24 folder and start with something like:

#!/usr/bin/env python

This tells your shell to use python when running ADT scripts. Unless you installed MGLTools from source, python from your system does not know where to find MGLTools packages, and chances are that you'll get ImportError. The following FAQ shows how to fix this problem: http://mgltools.scripps.edu/documentation/faq/ImportError

An alternative solution is to replace python from the first line with $MGL_ROOT/bin/pythonsh. For instance:

#!/usr/bin/env /Library/MGLTools/1.5.0/bin/pythonsh

Linux version of MGLTools includes two new scripts, mglenv.csh and mglenv.sh located in MGLTools-$Version/bin folder. If you source these files, then you don't need to modify ADT scripts or call them with pythonsh in front.

       c-shell:
            > source mglenv.csh
       bash-shell:
            > source mglenv.sh

Note that, you need to source for environment variables to remain in effect.

Mac OS X users and others can create mglenv as described here.

Ubuntu/Debian users who installed ADT using apt-get install autodocktools can find these scripts in /usr/share/pyshared/AutoDockTools/Utilities24. Please use python2.5 interpreter instead of python2.6 which is system default python on  Ubuntu 9.04.