[chimerax-users] Installing ChimeraX on Ubuntu 16.04 or openSuse Leap 15.2

[Miguel]

Thank you for your answer. I will give it a try.

I have also tried to install ChimeraX on a VirtualBox machine with 
Ubuntu 22 a first time, and Windows the second time. It did not work. I 
guess ChimeraX cannot be installed in virtualbox machines. Could you 
confirm it?

Thanks once again,

Miguel


On 19/10/22 6:58, Greg Couch wrote:
> ChimeraX 1.4 (and the 1.5 release candidate) needs Ubuntu 20 or 
> newer.  So the procedure for Ubuntu is to first update the operating 
> system. Then install ChimeraX.
>
> Unfortunately, we don't support openSUSE.  But I was able to get the 
> RHEL 8 rpm to appear to work on openSUSE 15.4.   So, after downloading 
> ucsf-chimerax-1.4-1.el8.x86_64.rpm:
>
>     sudo zypper install ~/Downloads/ucsf-chimerax-1.4-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
>
> then skip the missing cario-gobject (since I installed Xfce instead of 
> Gnome).  Then it complains that the package header is not signed.  
> Ignore that.  Then, not all of the dependencies are there.  Fix the 
> missing libGLU.so with:
>
>     sudo zypper install libGLU1
>
> then fix the fact that openSUSE has libffi.so.7 and ChimeraX is 
> expecting libffi.so.6 with:
>
>     sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libffi.so.7 
> /usr/libexec/UCSF-ChimeraX/lib/libffi.so.6
>
> And after all that, I was able to run /usr/bin/chimerax.  There were 
> some warnings and errors in the terminal window, but I was able to 
> open an mmCIF file from the PDB.  So not a complete test, but a good 
> start.
>
>     HTH,
>
>     Greg
>
> On 10/18/2022 6:55 AM, Miguel via ChimeraX-users wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to install ChimeraX on Ubuntu 16.04 or openSUSE Leap 15.2 
>> without success.
>>
>> Is it possible? If so, what would be the procedure?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Miguel
>>
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