Hi Blake, I've certainly had problems that "solved themselves" like that. :-) I hope further use of Chimera is less mysterious! --Eric On Sep 15, 2008, at 12:55 PM, Blake Mertz wrote:

Eric,

Thanks much for looking into that for me -- actually, I came back to my machine the next morning, ran the install command exactly as specified on the website, and it ran this time. I swear I wasn't hallucinating when I sent that message, so thanks again for taking the time. I'm definitely looking forward to using Chimera, as a former student in our research group had nothing but good things to say about it. Talk to you soon.

Blake

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Eric Pettersen <pett@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote: Hi Blake, _Seems_ like it should work. Running from the directory with the Chimera installer, what is the output of the following commands:

df . sudo pwd sudo ls -l sudo ls -ld . sudo ls -ld ..

--Eric

Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu

On Sep 10, 2008, at 2:33 PM, Blake Mertz wrote:

...

Hi,

My name is Blake, and I'm a postdoc at the U. of Arizona. I'm starting to use Chimera after using Pymol for a long time, but have had trouble getting it installed. After downloading the .exe file and changing it to an executable, here is the error message I get:

blake@omega:~/Desktop$ ls -l chimera-1.2540-linux.exe -rwxr-xr-x 1 blake blake 97898302 2008-09-10 14:12 chimera-1.2540- linux.exe blake@omega:~/Desktop$ sudo ./chimera-1.2540-linux.exe [sudo] password for blake: sudo: unable to execute ./chimera-1.2540-linux.exe: No such file or directory

There has to be something obvious I'm missing here, correct? I'm running Ubuntu v. 8.04, if that helps. Thanks, and talk to you soon.

Blake

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