On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Francesco Pietra wrote:

hi: replaced hd, installed chimera-1.3.2577-linux.exe on debian i386 lenny

ok, though i have to give the full path

/usr/local/chimera/bin/./chimera

to launch chimera. notice that the directory /chimera is chown to me as user. with previous versions and debian i386 etch (last installation daily built 17 Sept 2008), execution of chimera from anywhere was provided on installation. never mind, are there available env variables for the executable?

thanks francesco pietra

So what's going wrong exactly? You only have to give the full path if the chimera executable is not on your shell's path nor do you have a symbolic link to it (e.g., ln -s /usr/local/chimera/bin/chimera ~/bin/chimera and ~/bin is on your shell's path). The chimera installation does not make that symbolic link. The only enviroment variable you might want to use with chimera is the CHIMERA_PATH enviroment variable. It replaces PYTHON_PATH for chimera's python, so it can be different from the PYTHON_PATH your system python uses. Greg Couch UCSF Computer Graphics Lab