[Chimera-users] Chimera 1.1951 on OSX 10.3.4 fails to do much at all...

[Greg Couch]

(On the chance that Tom has already left for vacation, and won't be able 
to reply for a week.)

Glad to hear that it works when it's in /Applications.  We didn't intend 
for chimera to be location-dependent, so we'll look into that problem. 
Chimera includes it's own python and should use it.  That's why the Tom's 
email mentioned the PYTHONHOME, PYTHONPATH, and CHIMERA environment 
variables -- those should be the only possible way of confusing chimera 
and if they're not set, then that means that there is a less obvious bug 
to fix (the non-Mac versions of chimera prevent those environment 
variables from confusing chimera, and the Mac should too).

 	- Greg

On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Grant Jacobs wrote:

> Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 16:51:50 +1200
> From: Grant Jacobs <gjacobs at bioinfotools.com>
> To: Thomas Goddard <goddard at cgl.ucsf.edu>
> Cc: chimera-users at cgl.ucsf.edu
> Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] Chimera 1.1951 on OSX 10.3.4 fails to do much at
>     all...
> 
>
> I've tried a few things -- seems Chimera is location-dependent. I place most 
> of my applications in subdirectories of /Applications or ~/Applications (e.g. 
> Text, Graphics, Science, etc.) to organise things a bit. A few apps. insist 
> on being in /Applications - Chimera seems to be one of these. Your 
> installation notes don't indicate this explicitly, but I suppose no many 
> people insist on being so over-organised :-)
>
> While I'm writing, I presume Chimera insists on using its own version of 
> python over anything installed in /usr/bin/python or whatever?
>
> (Just in case you think your reply was of no help, it was the ls example that 
> got me thinking it might be the location.)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Grant
>
>> Hi Grant,
>> 
>>   Chimera comes with Tcl/Tk and Python and everything that is needed.
>> Either your Chimera installation did not work, or environment variables
>> are tripping up Chimera.
>> 
>>   To see if all of Chimera got installed use Mac Finder and single click
>> on Chimera.  On my Mac OS 10.3.4 system it says 132.9 Mb disk space is
>> being used by Chimera.  Is that what you see?
>> 
>>   More likely the problem is with environment variables.  Do you have
>> PYTHONHOME set in your environment?  If you start a Terminal and type
>> echo $PYTHONHOME it will say if this variable is set.  Other environment
>> variables that could mess up Chimera are PYTHONPATH and CHIMERA.
>> 
>>   If all of this looks ok try
>> 
>>   % ls 
>> /Applications/Science/Chimera-1.1951.app/Contents/Resources/share/Lighting
>> 
>> from a Mac Terminal.  This is the location of the missing file referenced
>> by the Python error you sent.  You should see the following files:
>> 
>> ChimeraExtension.py*  controller.py*  __init__.py*
>> ChimeraExtension.pyc  controller.pyc  __init__.pyc
>> 
>>   Lastly, we have separate Mac OS 10.2 and 10.3 versions of Chimera on
>> our web site.  If you still have the Chimera dmg it should be
>> chimera-1.1951-osx10_3_x11.dmg, not chimera-1.1951-osx_x11.dmg.
>> 
>> 	Tom
>
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