PyMOL is a molecular visualization system. Please note that only the open-source version of PyMOL is available in the Department.
On managed Linux workstations this is available as standard, just type pymol. The system version is not compatible with Anaconda so if you use Anaconda be sure to unload it before starting pymol.
On managed Windows workstations you may need to install the package via WPKG. If you are the registered user of the machine you want the package installing on, or are the group computer rep, you can select it for installation automatically at https://apps.ch.cam.ac.uk/wpkg/ .
The program may very well segfault on startup if it doesn't like your computer's video drivers. If this happens please get in touch with support@ch.cam.ac.uk to see what can be done about it (or use different visualisation software!)
Unlike the program code, the documentation is not free. However there's quite a lot of stuff on the pymol wiki that might help.
Part of the distro on Ubuntu, presumbly compiled by Ubuntu.
There are binary releases available for pymol from https://pymol.org/ but they require paid licences for full functionality.
pymol is very picky about video drivers.
To test it I usually just run some examples off the wiki. At the time of writing there is a tutorial at https://pymolwiki.org/index.php/Practical_Pymol_for_Beginners that suffices.
