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

[Miguel]

Elaine, Greg,

Thank you very much for the amazing support.

Best,
Miguel


On 19/10/22 23:49, Greg Couch wrote:
> 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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