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

[Greg Couch]

I have not had any luck with VirtualBox, but I haven't tried it in a 
long time.  VMware Workstation 16 Player works well enough for 
debugging.  But you will loose performance by not running ChimeraX 
natively.  And if you find a bug, we might not be able to fix it -- that 
is the bug fix will be to run ChimeraX natively. Your call.

     -- Greg

On 10/19/2022 1:32 PM, Elaine Meng via ChimeraX-users wrote:
> 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
> -----
> 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
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