# Trouble installing Gromacs

**URL:** <https://ask.bioexcel.eu/t/trouble-installing-gromacs/696>\
**Category:** GROMACS\
**Created:** [December 21, 2017, 7:59am UTC](https://ask.bioexcel.eu/t/trouble-installing-gromacs/696 "2017-12-21T07:59:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Diogo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@Diogo](https://ask.bioexcel.eu/u/Diogo)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2017, 7:59am UTC](https://ask.bioexcel.eu/t/trouble-installing-gromacs/696/1 "2017-12-21T07:59:38Z")

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I’ve tried installing using linux in a VM, I follow all the steps of the site however it always results in the same problem. Is there any coherent tutorial I can follow?

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**Author:** ![rossen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/74df32/32.png) [@rossen](https://ask.bioexcel.eu/u/rossen)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2017, 8:37am UTC](https://ask.bioexcel.eu/t/trouble-installing-gromacs/696/2 "2017-12-22T08:37:01Z")

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Which install guide do you follow and what exactly is the problem?

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**Author:** ![Diogo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@Diogo](https://ask.bioexcel.eu/u/Diogo)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2017, 10:17pm UTC](https://ask.bioexcel.eu/t/trouble-installing-gromacs/696/3 "2017-12-22T22:17:44Z")

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I can not say the error, but I followed two tutorials from youtube, which is the same as the oficial site, however tutorials used a version 14.04 of ubuntu and 16.04 (xenical xerus). I will redo an installation and make an image tab showing all the time when it is the error. Thanks for you attention Rossen.

ubuntu 14.04: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOJsmtFeSGk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOJsmtFeSGk)  
ubuntu 16.04 : [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3ypo2Oegvc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3ypo2Oegvc)

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**Author:** ![mabraham](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/ask.bioexcel.eu/mabraham/32/20_2.png) [@mabraham](https://ask.bioexcel.eu/u/mabraham)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2018, 1:58pm UTC](https://ask.bioexcel.eu/t/trouble-installing-gromacs/696/4 "2018-07-18T13:58:34Z")

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The installation guides are at [http://manual.gromacs.org/documentation/current/install-guide/index.html](http://manual.gromacs.org/documentation/current/install-guide/index.html). It’s great that other people try to make helpful guides in other media, but unfortunately we can’t support and/or comment on all of them. For the record, many such guides I have seen have been somewhat inappropriate even for exactly their intended version and install context, so I strongly recommend following the standard guides.