If the flatpak command is installed, you can install the flatpak version as a regular user. An administrator would need to install the flatpak command (sudo apt install flatpak), but after that you can update your version of ChimeraX any time. See https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimerax/flatpak.html for details. Starting with 1.8, the flatpak version of ChimeraX is the generic Linux version. It is also possible to download the Ubuntu 22.04 deb package and extract the files using the dpkg-deb command. Move the usr/lib/ucsf-chimerax directory wherever you want, and make a symbolic link to the bin/ChimeraX program that you would use to run ChimeraX from the command line (do not add the ChimeraX bin directory to your path). Unfortunately, you still need sudo to install of the dependencies needed to run ChimeraX (which the dpkg-deb command can tell you). So it is simpler to have an administrator install ChimeraX (using sudo). If singularity/apptainer is installed your on your system, then it is also possible to build a container with ChimeraX and all of the dependencies in it. And run ChimeraX via that container. You need to get the right graphics driver in the container, so the container would be specific to your setup. An administrator would be needed to install the apptainer command if it isn't already installed. So sudo apt install is best, flatpak is a good second choice, and apptainer is a possible third choice. HTH, Greg On 6/17/2024 4:40 AM, Ricardo Righetto via ChimeraX-users wrote:
Dear ChimeraX team,
Is there any way to install ChimeraX >= 1.8 on Linux without admin rights, like a generic Linux version that I can unpack at an arbitrary location? Our system is running Ubuntu 22.04 more specifically.
Thank you!
-- Ricardo Diogo Righetto
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