Hi Greg, 

Thanks very much! Following the instructions, I did get ChimeraX installed. (This might be a global setting for flatpak that I am not aware of. I am a first-time user of Flatpak.) 

On the website, there is the following command for running. 

    flatpak run edu.ucsf.rbvi.Chimerax

The last character should be capitalized in my case. And I need to add "--user" for non-sudo. 

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The part below might go beyond your support. But if you do have some hints, please kindly let me know. After I corrected the naming, I still got errors, and the graphics did not look correct (attached). I was running the command in a NICE EnginFrame Views (https://www.ni-sp.com/products/enginframe-views/) environment. 

(base) [luod@rsws06 ~]$ flatpak run edu.ucsf.rbvi.Chimerax
error: While opening repository /var/lib/flatpak/repo: opening repo: opendir(/var/lib/flatpak/repo): No such file or directory
(base) [luod@rsws06 ~]$ flatpak run edu.ucsf.rbvi.ChimeraX
error: While opening repository /var/lib/flatpak/repo: opening repo: opendir(/var/lib/flatpak/repo): No such file or directory
(base) [luod@rsws06 ~]$ flatpak run --user edu.ucsf.rbvi.Chimerax
error: app/edu.ucsf.rbvi.Chimerax/x86_64/master not installed
(base) [luod@rsws06 ~]$ flatpak run --user edu.ucsf.rbvi.ChimeraX
F: Can't get document portal: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message recipient disconnected from message bus without replying
NOTE: available bundle cache has not been initialized yet
WARNING: WebEngineContext is used before QtWebEngineQuick::initialize() or OpenGL context creation failed.
WARNING: QGLXContext: Failed to create dummy context
WARNING: QRhiGles2: Failed to create temporary context
WARNING: QRhiGles2: Failed to create context
WARNING: Failed to create QRhi for QBackingStoreRhiSupport
ERROR: Could not create OpenGL context
WARNING: QRhiGles2: Failed to create temporary context
WARNING: QRhiGles2: Failed to create context
WARNING: Failed to create QRhi for QBackingStoreRhiSupport
WARNING: QQuickWidget: Failed to get a QRhi from the top-level widget's window
WARNING: QQuickWidget::resizeEvent() no QRhi
WARNING: QRhiGles2: Failed to create temporary context
WARNING: QRhiGles2: Failed to create context
WARNING: Failed to create QRhi for QBackingStoreRhiSupport
WARNING: QQuickWidget: Failed to get a QRhi from the top-level widget's window

Thanks,
Roden


On Tue, Jul 9, 2024 at 2:44 AM Greg Couch <gregc@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
As noted in the flatpak instructions, you need to configure the per-user
flathub repository first.   That way the correct runtime will be
installed when installing ChimeraX.  So do:

> flatpak remote-add --user --if-not-exists flathub
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo__;!!Nmw4Hv0!xh_nMcRlvdKtesw4uwRea8sVNzkrMi3MXAap-wuHHCTDcPngEB2jgtLBxfm9raZkYR-ehkK4jisPLLD2esB8wQ$
then do:

> flatpak install --user ChimeraX.flatpak
I'll rework the instructions to make that more obvious.

HTH,

     Greg

On 7/8/24 03:49, Roden Deng Luo via ChimeraX-users wrote:
> Dear ChimeraX Team,
>
> The install notes for all the current distributions for the Linx
> system require sudo. I wonder is it possible without sudo?
>
> On Rocky Linux VERSION 9.4 (Blue Onyx), I tried the following.
>
> $ flatpak --user install ChimeraX-1.8.flatpak
> error: The application edu.ucsf.rbvi.ChimeraX/x86_64/master requires
> the runtime org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/23.08 which was not found
>
> $ rpm -ivh ucsf-chimerax-1.8-1.el9.x86_64.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
> fftw-libs-single is needed by ucsf-chimerax-1.8-1.el9.x86_64
> mesa-libOSMesa is needed by ucsf-chimerax-1.8-1.el9.x86_64
> sqlite is needed by ucsf-chimerax-1.8-1.el9.x86_64
> xcb-util-cursor is needed by ucsf-chimerax-1.8-1.el9.x86_64
> xcb-util-image is needed by ucsf-chimerax-1.8-1.el9.x86_64
> xcb-util-keysyms is needed by ucsf-chimerax-1.8-1.el9.x86_64
> xcb-util-renderutil is needed by ucsf-chimerax-1.8-1.el9.x86_64
> xcb-util-wm is needed by ucsf-chimerax-1.8-1.el9.x86_64
>
> Thanks,
> Roden
>

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