While we’d love to be on package managers to make ChimeraX easier to install, unfortunately we don’t feel the way we handle licensing (agree-to-download, split based on commercial/noncommercial use) is compatible with putting ChimeraX in their repos. For now you’ll have to get it from our website.

On Nov 25, 2025, at 21:49, Joshua Raphael Uy via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

Hi Chimerax Dev team,

My name is Josh Uy. I'm a graduate student at Arizona State University, and I frequently use ChimeraX as a visualization tool on both Windows and Linux!

I'm wondering if you guys would be ok if I were to submit a winget manifest for ChimeraX? ChimeraX is a wonderful piece of software that I am using for my Ph.D and having an automated way to get and install via cli package manager tools would be incredibly handy to have.

I wouldn't mind being the guy responsible for maintaining this if approved.

Thank you,
Josh Uy
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