[Chimera-users] ImportError: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Done_MM_Var

[Thomas Evangelidis]

Strangely, the alpha version (May 09, 2019) works fine!

On Fri, 17 May 2019 at 12:19, Thomas Evangelidis <tevang3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I did a fresh installation of Chimera on Ubuntu 19.04 but although the
> installation finished successfully, I get this error message whenever I
> launch the executable:
>
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/home2/thomas/Programs/Chimera-1.13.1/share/__main__.py", line
>> 73, in <module>
>>     value = chimeraInit.init(sys.argv)
>>   File "/home2/thomas/Programs/Chimera-1.13.1/share/chimeraInit.py", line
>> 666, in init
>>     import chimera
>>   File "/home2/thomas/Programs/Chimera-1.13.1/share/chimera/__init__.py",
>> line 2777, in <module>
>>     from SimpleSession import BEGIN_RESTORE_SESSION, END_RESTORE_SESSION
>>   File
>> "/home2/thomas/Programs/Chimera-1.13.1/share/SimpleSession/__init__.py",
>> line 14, in <module>
>>     from save import saveSession, sessionID, noAutoRestore,
>> autoRestorable, \
>>   File
>> "/home2/thomas/Programs/Chimera-1.13.1/share/SimpleSession/save.py", line
>> 13, in <module>
>>     from chimera import replyobj, selection, SessionPDBio, version
>>   File "/home2/thomas/Programs/Chimera-1.13.1/share/chimera/replyobj.py",
>> line 24, in <module>
>>     import Tkinter
>>   File
>> "/home2/thomas/Programs/Chimera-1.13.1/lib/python2.7/lib-tk/Tkinter.py",
>> line 39, in <module>
>>     import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for
>> Tk
>> ImportError: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol:
>> FT_Done_MM_Var
>>
>
> What is strange is that the following works without error:
>
> /home2/thomas/Programs/Chimera-1.13.1/bin/python2.7 -c 'import _tkinter'
>>
>
> Any idea what might be wrong?
>
> Best,
> Thomas
>
>
> --
>
> ======================================================================
>
> Dr. Thomas Evangelidis
>
> Research Scientist
>
> IOCB - Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech
> Academy of Sciences <https://www.uochb.cz/web/structure/31.html?lang=en>, Prague,
> Czech Republic
>   &
> CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology <https://www.ceitec.eu/>
> , Brno, Czech Republic
>
> email: tevang3 at gmail.com, Twitter: tevangelidis
> <https://twitter.com/tevangelidis>, LinkedIn: Thomas Evangelidis
> <https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-evangelidis-495b45125/>
>
> website: https://sites.google.com/site/thomasevangelidishomepage/
>
>
>
>

-- 

======================================================================

Dr. Thomas Evangelidis

Research Scientist

IOCB - Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy
of Sciences <https://www.uochb.cz/web/structure/31.html?lang=en>, Prague,
Czech Republic
  &
CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology
<https://www.ceitec.eu/>, Brno,
Czech Republic

email: tevang3 at gmail.com, Twitter: tevangelidis
<https://twitter.com/tevangelidis>, LinkedIn: Thomas Evangelidis
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-evangelidis-495b45125/>

website: https://sites.google.com/site/thomasevangelidishomepage/
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