<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Tristan, dear Tom,</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you very much for the answers, I can totally understand the situation. Hopefully we can upgrade the distro on our cluster soon, until then we stick to 1.3 there.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,<br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><br>--<br>Ricardo Diogo Righetto<br></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Em qua., 15 de jun. de 2022 às 18:53, Tom Goddard <<a href="mailto:goddard@sonic.net">goddard@sonic.net</a>> escreveu:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Tristan is right.  ChimeraX is not available for CentOS 7 or Ubuntu 16 or 18 because the Qt 6 window toolkit does not support those old Linux operating systems and ChimeraX 1.4 uses Qt 6.  So ChimeraX 1.3 is the last release that can be used with those operating systems.<div><br></div><div>Greg Couch on the ChimeraX developer team tried compiling Qt 6 for CentOS 7, and tried making a Docker image, a Singularity image, and a Flatpak.  None of these worked.  Because the Qt window toolkit is a much bigger package than the entire ChimeraX project we don't have the programmers to make Qt work on old Linux versions if the Qt Company chooses not to support old Linux.</div><div><br></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">        </span>Tom</div><div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jun 15, 2022, at 8:22 AM, Tristan Croll via ChimeraX-users <<a href="mailto:chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu" target="_blank">chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Sadly, this is going to become a theme for virtually all scientific packages using (Py)Qt for their GUI. The Qt company have decided to stop supporting the free version of Qt5, pushing all developers other than those who can afford the license fees on to Qt6 (which does not run in CentOS 7). It's a real pain, but that's just the way things are.</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">-- Tristan</div><div id="gmail-m_119623489516690756appendonsend" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"></div><hr style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;width:723.234px"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline"></span><div id="gmail-m_119623489516690756divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>From:</b><span> </span>ChimeraX-users <<a href="mailto:chimerax-users-bounces@cgl.ucsf.edu" target="_blank">chimerax-users-bounces@cgl.ucsf.edu</a>> on behalf of Ricardo Righetto via ChimeraX-users <<a href="mailto:chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu" target="_blank">chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu</a>><br><b>Sent:</b><span> </span>15 June 2022 15:58<br><b>To:</b><span> </span><a href="mailto:chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu" target="_blank">chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu</a> <<a href="mailto:chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu" target="_blank">chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu</a>><br><b>Subject:</b><span> </span>[chimerax-users] Version 1.4 for CentOS 7?</font><div> </div></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-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