Hi David, In the terminal, go to the directory where the Chimera installer you downloaded is. Type "ls -l". You should see a list of the files in the directory. One of them (the installer) should be something like: -rwxr-xr-x 1 chimera staff 103907447 Jun 5 00:36 chimera-alpha- linux.exe This would be if you had downloaded today's daily build. If you had gotten the production release, the name would be chimera-1.2470- linux.exe instead of chimera-alpha-linux.exe. The big number in the middle of the line is the file size. Make sure it's the same as the size listed on the download page. The string of letters on the left is the "permissions" for the file. The last letter needs to be 'x' for it to be executable. If it's not, type "chmod +x <name of the installer file>", then do "ls -l" again and check that it's executable. Now type "./<name of the installer file>". The installation should either start up or you get some kind of error message. If you get an error, let me know what it is. --Eric Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu On May 29, 2008, at 11:53 PM, David wrote:

Hi, Im a long time user of Chimera, but now I changed XP for Ubuntu for 6 gb of ram that couldn't be used in XP 32 bits. I need help installing Linux version of Chimera, I have read and goggled web for instructions, and none of them seems to work, I run .exe in terminal (knowing linux doesn't use .exe i find this confusing) and nothing happens, I try that Chmod command and running again and nothing too... Im a really beginner here in linux, also browsed Ubuntu forums for help and at least till today have got no answer. All help would be greatly appreciated.

sincerely, David Bulnes Abundis _______________________________________________ Chimera-users mailing list Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users