Hello everybody,

I am a very inexperienced new user of Linux / cygwin and having problems in installing DMS and Chimera:

1. I am trying to install DMS but having problems with specifying correctly the pathway to the appropriate locations of the BINDIR and LIBDIR directories in the GNUmakefile. I am getting a message: “Cannot create directory… not such file or directory”.  I have tried it both on Linux enterprise 4 and on Windows using cygwin.  My pathway includes spaces, i.e: /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/User Name/Desktop/dms/bin   Can anyone please tell me how exactly I should enter the pathway (I think the spaces cause the problem but not sure)?

2. I am having problems running the chimera-installer.exe. file of Chimera on Linux.  When I double-clicked on it, it tells me that I cannot execute the file, so as suggested in the instructions (http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/1.2304/linux.html) I typed chmod +x ‘filename’ .  When I checked the properties of the file after chmod, the box of ‘execute’ was checked (so I believe that I really changed the file’s permissions). However, I am still getting the same error message when I double-click it.  Does anyone know what am I doing wrong?

Please consider my lack of experience in UNIX terminology if you try to answer one of my questions,

Thanks a lot,

Ben