I just successfully installed/ran 1.2524 on my Intel Mac running OSX 10.4.11 The only minor hiccup I had were the following warnings spit out when I executed chimera and a lengthier-than-usual first-time hesitation before the gui appeared (presumably due to these fonts - which by the way look *much* nicer than those in the production release): ~/dev/Chimera-1.2524.app/Contents/MacOS$ ./chimera Fontconfig warning: no <cachedir> elements found. Check configuration. Fontconfig warning: adding <cachedir>//var/cache/fontconfig</cachedir> Fontconfig warning: adding <cachedir>~/.fontconfig</cachedir> It just dawned on me that maybe you have a powerpc machine (uname - a)? I'm guessing that the Chimera developers need to recompile that snapshot with some different env flags. There's some info on google about the error msg you're seeing. I just went through this slightly painful exercise for a guy running osx 10.3.x/ppc for some Python eggs we distribute as extensions to Chimera. I also noticed this snapshot is now using Python 2.5, fwiw. -Randy On May 31, 2008, at 2:24 PM, Bruce D. Ray wrote:
--- Randy Heiland <heiland@indiana.edu> wrote:
I was going to try to reproduce your problem, but it looks like they've already updated that snapshot since there is no 1.2509 now:
http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/download.html
You might try the latest, 1.2524, snapshot if you really need something newer than the production release.
Well, I just tried that version and I get the exact same error.
Error messages to console log are:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Volumes/ChimeraInstaller/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/share/ __main__.py", line 65, in <module>
value = chimeraInit.init(sys.argv)
File "/Volumes/ChimeraInstaller/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/share/ chimeraInit.py", line 279, in init
import chimera
File "/Volumes/ChimeraInstaller/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/share/ chimera/__init__.py", line 15, in <module>
from _chimera import *
ImportError: dynamic module does not define init function (init_chimera)
Sincerely,
-- Bruce D. Ray, Ph.D. Associate Scientist, and Operations Director NMR Center IUPUI Physics Dept. 402 N. Blackford St. Indianapolis, IN 46202-3273