ImportError: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Done_MM_Var

17 May 2019

      Greetings,

I did a fresh installation of Chimera on Ubuntu 19.04 but although the
installation finished successfully, I get this error message whenever I
launch the executable:
...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home2/thomas/Programs/Chimera-1.13.1/share/__main__.py", line 73,
in <module>
    value = chimeraInit.init(sys.argv)
  File "/home2/thomas/Programs/Chimera-1.13.1/share/chimeraInit.py", line
666, in init
    import chimera
  File "/home2/thomas/Programs/Chimera-1.13.1/share/chimera/__init__.py",
line 2777, in <module>
    from SimpleSession import BEGIN_RESTORE_SESSION, END_RESTORE_SESSION
  File
"/home2/thomas/Programs/Chimera-1.13.1/share/SimpleSession/__init__.py",
line 14, in <module>
    from save import saveSession, sessionID, noAutoRestore,
autoRestorable, \
  File
"/home2/thomas/Programs/Chimera-1.13.1/share/SimpleSession/save.py", line
13, in <module>
    from chimera import replyobj, selection, SessionPDBio, version
  File "/home2/thomas/Programs/Chimera-1.13.1/share/chimera/replyobj.py",
line 24, in <module>
    import Tkinter
  File
"/home2/thomas/Programs/Chimera-1.13.1/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: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol:
FT_Done_MM_Var
What is strange is that the following works without error:

/home2/thomas/Programs/Chimera-1.13.1/bin/python2.7 -c 'import _tkinter'
...
Any idea what might be wrong?

Best,
Thomas

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