On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, John Beale wrote:

I have a LINUX computer on which I have been running Chimera for a couple of years. On this system installing Chimera was very straightforward- just click on the executable. I just took delivery on a new Linux system and I have been trying to install Chimera. I downloaded the file from your site (an *.exe file). When I click on the executable my system tells me that the file had been downloaded as an MS/DOS file and I should open the file some other way. The executable would not run. I have no idea what to do with this. Can you suggest a solution? It is strange because it was so easy to install on my previous system. (I am using RedHat Enterprise LINUX).

Thank You!

John Beale jbeale@stlcop.edu

I'm not sure what changed or why just clicking on the executable ever worked. The Linux installer needs to be run inside a terminal/shell window. So start up your favorite terminal emulator (eg., xterm), cd to the directory with the chimera installer (eg., cd Desktop), make the chimera installer executable (chmod +x chimera-1.2422-linux.exe), then run it (./chimera-1.2422-linux.exe) and answer the question about where you want to install it. Good luck, Greg Couch UCSF Computer Graphics Lab