[Chimera-users] Chimera silent installer options for RHEL 7.6

[Darin Lory]

Greg,

We will give that a try with our Ansible playbook.  Thank you very much
again.

Best regards,

-Darin

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new
discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'"
  -Issac Asimov



On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 4:55 PM Greg Couch <gregc at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

> To automate the installation, you can put the answers to the installer
> questions in a file and redirect stdin to be from that file.
>
> If you want to get trickier, you can treat the Linux installer as a zip
> archive, and extract the installation tree "chimera.bin".  Then you unzip
> the installation tree where you want Chimera installed.  After that you
> should pre-compile all of the python files, put a symbolic link that is on
> the standard path to CHIMERA/bin/chimera (where CHIMERA is the directory
> you installed Chimera to).  Next, for the regular version of Chimera (ie.,
> not the OSMESA version), you would run "CHIMERA/bin/xdg-setup install" to
> install Chimera into the system's desktop applications menu.  Later, a user
> can run "CHIMERA/bin/xdg-setup install" to get a desktop icon.
>
>     HTH,
>
>     Greg
> On 6/7/19 1:55 PM, Darin Lory wrote:
>
> Chimera Gurus,
>
> Are there linux silent install options for the Chimera so I can specify
> the installation directory, etc.
>
> I have chimera working via the regular installation method.
>
> My team and I are trying to automate the installation via Ansible playbook.
>
> Kindly advise,
>
> -Darin
>
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