To automate the installation, you can put the answers to the installer questions in a file and redirect stdin to be from that file.

If you want to get trickier, you can treat the Linux installer as a zip archive, and extract the installation tree "chimera.bin".  Then you unzip the installation tree where you want Chimera installed.  After that you should pre-compile all of the python files, put a symbolic link that is on the standard path to CHIMERA/bin/chimera (where CHIMERA is the directory you installed Chimera to).  Next, for the regular version of Chimera (ie., not the OSMESA version), you would run "CHIMERA/bin/xdg-setup install" to install Chimera into the system's desktop applications menu.  Later, a user can run "CHIMERA/bin/xdg-setup install" to get a desktop icon.

    HTH,

    Greg

Chimera Gurus,

Are there linux silent install options for the Chimera so I can specify the installation directory, etc.

I have chimera working via the regular installation method. 

My team and I are trying to automate the installation via Ansible playbook.

Kindly advise,

-Darin

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'"   -Issac Asimov

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