Hi! I am running Fedora 29. Now I'm trying to install chimera-1.13.1-linux_x86_64.bin. After successful installation it failed to create a window in a desktop applecation menu. So I followed the instructions on the web-site (http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/data/downloads/1.13.1/linux_x86_64.html). After running the command <dir_name>/bin/xdg-setup install it stumbled upon the same error that was discussed in this thread (https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2018-November/015237.html) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/sec/.local/chimera/share/__main__.py", line 73, in <module> value = chimeraInit.init(sys.argv) File "/home/sec/.local/chimera/share/chimeraInit.py", line 666, in init import chimera File "/home/sec/.local/chimera/share/chimera/__init__.py", line 2777, in <module> from SimpleSession import BEGIN_RESTORE_SESSION, END_RESTORE_SESSION File "/home/sec/.local/chimera/share/SimpleSession/__init__.py", line 14, in <module> from save import saveSession, sessionID, noAutoRestore, autoRestorable, \ File "/home/sec/.local/chimera/share/SimpleSession/save.py", line 13, in <module> from chimera import replyobj, selection, SessionPDBio, version File "/home/sec/.local/chimera/share/chimera/replyobj.py", line 24, in <module> import Tkinter File "/home/sec/.local/chimera/lib/python2.7/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 39, in <module> import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for Tk ImportError: /usr/lib64/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Done_MM_Var So I followed your advise and removed the corresponding files:
rm ~/.local/chimera/lib/libz.so* rm ~/.local/chimera/lib/libfreetype.so*
Unfortunately it didn't solve the problem. So after typing:
~/.local/chimera/bin/xdg-setup install
It complained that it cannot find the libz.so file! Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/sec/.local/chimera/share/__main__.py", line 73, in <module> value = chimeraInit.init(sys.argv) File "/home/sec/.local/chimera/share/chimeraInit.py", line 659, in init initialize_ssl_cert_dir() File "/home/sec/.local/chimera/share/chimeraInit.py", line 309, in initialize_ssl_cert_dir import ssl File "/home/sec/.local/chimera/lib/python2.7/ssl.py", line 146, in <module> import base64 # for DER-to-PEM translation File "/home/sec/.local/chimera/lib/python2.7/base64.py", line 11, in <module> import binascii ImportError: libz.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I will be grateful for any help. Best regards, Maxim. PhD Student, Physical Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University