[chimerax-users] Version 1.4 for CentOS 7?

[Ricardo Righetto]

Dear Tristan, dear Tom,

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.

Best wishes,

--
Ricardo Diogo Righetto


Em qua., 15 de jun. de 2022 às 18:53, Tom Goddard <goddard at sonic.net>
escreveu:

> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Tom
>
>
> On Jun 15, 2022, at 8:22 AM, Tristan Croll via ChimeraX-users <
> chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> -- Tristan
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> *From:* ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users-bounces at cgl.ucsf.edu> on behalf of
> Ricardo Righetto via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu>
> *Sent:* 15 June 2022 15:58
> *To:* chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu <chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu>
> *Subject:* [chimerax-users] Version 1.4 for CentOS 7?
>
> Hi,
>
> First, apologies if this has already been announced elsewhere.
> I see on the download webpage that there is no production release for
> CentOS 7 and the latest daily release for this platform was built on
> 2022-05-06. Any chance we could get a production release of 1.4 and/or a
> newer daily build for CentOS 7?
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> Best wishes,
>
> --
> Ricardo Diogo Righetto
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