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

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Miguel,

I don't know if it is the same thing as virtual box, but use on a virtual machine is not supported.  See "System Requirements":
<https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/system_requirements.html>

Best,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco

> On Oct 19, 2022, at 1:13 PM, Miguel via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> 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