[chimerax-users] ProblemI am attempting he installation of ChmimeraX Installing ChimeraX on Debian mv-10

[Stephen P. Molnar]

That was a quick reply. Many thanks.

However:

comp at AbNormal:~/Downloads/ChimeraX$ sudo dpkg -i 
ucsf-chimerax_1.2.5-1_amd64.deb
Selecting previously unselected package ucsf-chimerax.
(Reading database ... 509458 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack ucsf-chimerax_1.2.5-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking ucsf-chimerax (1.2.5-1) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ucsf-chimerax:
  ucsf-chimerax depends on libgfortran3; however:
   Package libgfortran3 is not installed.
  ucsf-chimerax depends on libllvm3.8; however:
   Package libllvm3.8 is not installed.
  ucsf-chimerax depends on libssl1.0.0; however:
   Package libssl1.0.0 is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package ucsf-chimerax (--install):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.5-2) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
  ucsf-chimerax



On 10/08/2021 03:22 PM, Tom Goddard wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
>
>   Our linux ChimeraX expert is on vacation but here is an idea.  The 
> problem is that the Qt window toolkit can't start and that is almost 
> surely a missing system library, probably one that the Qt xcb plugin 
> shared library needs.  I see a ChimeraX mailing list discussion of 
> this problem here
>
> https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimerax-users/2021-June/002339.html
>
> Supposedly the ChimeraX 1.2.5-1 builds on the download page solved 
> that issue.  If you are using the "generic Linux" ChimeraX 
> distribution I'd suggest instead using the Ubuntu 18.04 ChimeraX 
> version which is a .deb file for debian 10 according to the ChimeraX 
> download page.  The advantage of using the .deb distribution is that 
> it uses the Debian package manager to assure the needed libraries are 
> installed, while the "generic Linux" ChimeraX .tar.gz file tries to 
> include  the needed libraries but not always successfully since 
> different linux distros include different system libraries.
>
> Tom
>
>
>
>
>> On Oct 8, 2021, at 12:04 PM, Stephen P. Molnar via ChimeraX-users 
>> <chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu <mailto:chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu>> wrote:
>>
>> I am attempting the installation of 
>> ChimeraC-1.2.5(chimerax-1.2.5-rc-2021.05.24) on my up to date Debian 
>> v-1064 bit platform. I  open the tar.gz package without any 
>> difficulties, but when I attempt to execute ChmieraX i get the following:
>>
>> comp at AbNormal:~/Apps/chimerax-1.2.5-rc-2021.05.24/bin$ ./ChimeraX
>> qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even 
>> though it was found.
>> This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could 
>> be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
>>
>> Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, 
>> offscreen, vnc, wayland-egl, wayland, wayland-xcomposite-egl, 
>> wayland-xcomposite-glx, xcb.
>>
>> Fatal Python error: Aborted
>>
>> Current thread 0x00007fcb3dafd740 (most recent call first):
>>  File 
>> "/home/comp/Apps/chimerax-1.2.5-rc-2021.05.24/lib/python3.8/site-packages/chimerax/ui/gui.py", 
>> line 157 in __init__
>>  File 
>> "/home/comp/Apps/chimerax-1.2.5-rc-2021.05.24/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ChimeraX_main.py", 
>> line 577 in init
>>  File 
>> "/home/comp/Apps/chimerax-1.2.5-rc-2021.05.24/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ChimeraX_main.py", 
>> line 1015 in <module>
>>  File 
>> "/home/comp/Apps/chimerax-1.2.5-rc-2021.05.24/lib/python3.8/runpy.py", line 
>> 87 in _run_code
>>  File 
>> "/home/comp/Apps/chimerax-1.2.5-rc-2021.05.24/lib/python3.8/runpy.py", line 
>> 194 in _run_module_as_main
>> Aborted
>> comp at AbNormal:~/Apps/chimerax-1.2.5-rc-2021.05.24/bin$
>>
>> xcb is installed, but the Debian v-10 default version of python is 
>> 3.7. Is this the problem?
>>
>> Is there a solution? Reinstalling did not fix the problem.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> -- 
>> Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.
>> www.molecular-modeling.net <http://www.molecular-modeling.net>
>> 614.312.7528 (c)
>> Skype:  smolnar1
>>
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