[Chimera-users] Chimera 1.1951 on OSX 10.3.4 fails to do much at all...

[Grant Jacobs]

re: Chimera 1.1951 on OSX 10.3.4 fails to do much at all...


I'm a first time user obviously! :-)

Trying to open Side View or any of the Tools:Viewing Preferences fails.

Many commands via the command interface likewise fail, e.g. surface 
#0 (no module msms),  (no module webrowser).

AFAICS from the error messages, the errors appear to be either Python 
modules missing or Tcl/TK errors.

My download is the correct size.

Q: Does Chimera require a Tcl/TK installation? - which doesn't show 
these up and they aren't hidden in one of the sbin's (I'm assuming 
that they are named tcl and tk - I've never had to work with them 
directly myself). If so is this tested on start up? There appears to 
be nothing about this in the docs AFAICS. The OSX installation 
instructions only say to drag the app. to the disk, nothing about 
other requirements. So naturally that's all I've done so far! If it 
does require more stuff, would someone be so kind as to tell me 
exactly what and where to get it?

Two suggestions:

It'd be good to have a simple test of what modules are present to 
"verify" an installation. (e.g. Tools:test:modules)

It'd be good to have a test of the presence of Tcl/TK & let the user 
know it its not around.


Grant



E.g. of traceback:

ImportError: No module named Lighting.controller
(see reply log for Python traceback info)
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File 
"/Applications/Science/Chimera-1.1951.app/Contents/Resources/share/__main__.py", 
line 56, in ?
   File 
"/private/automount/usr/local/src/staff/chimera-build/Darwin-X11/install/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/share/chimeraInit.py", 
line 301, in init
   File "tkgui.py", line 2891, in eventLoop
   File 
"/usr/local/src/staff/chimera-build/Darwin-X11/foreign/Python-2.3.2/lib/python2.3/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", 
line 965, in mainloop
   File 
"/private/automount/usr/local/src/staff/chimera-build/Darwin-X11/install/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.3/site-packages/Pmw/Pmw_1_2/lib/PmwBase.py", 
line 1751, in __call__
   File 
"/private/automount/usr/local/src/staff/chimera-build/Darwin-X11/install/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.3/site-packages/Pmw/Pmw_1_2/lib/PmwBase.py", 
line 1814, in _reporterror
   File 
"/private/automount/usr/local/src/staff/chimera-build/Darwin-X11/install/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.3/site-packages/Pmw/Pmw_1_2/lib/PmwBase.py", 
line 1377, in displayerror
   File 
"/private/automount/usr/local/src/staff/chimera-build/Darwin-X11/install/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.3/site-packages/Pmw/Pmw_1_2/lib/PmwBase.py", 
line 1747, in __call__
   File "base.py", line 434, in activate
   File "base.py", line 80, in menuActivate
   File "ChimeraExtension.py", line 20, in activate
   File "base.py", line 102, in module
ImportError: No module named Lighting.controller
AttributeError: ViewerDialog instance has no attribute 'nb'
(see reply log for Python traceback info)
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File 
"/Applications/Science/Chimera-1.1951.app/Contents/Resources/share/__main__.py", 
line 56, in ?
   File 
"/private/automount/usr/local/src/staff/chimera-build/Darwin-X11/install/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/share/chimeraInit.py", 
line 301, in init
   File "tkgui.py", line 2891, in eventLoop
   File 
"/usr/local/src/staff/chimera-build/Darwin-X11/foreign/Python-2.3.2/lib/python2.3/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", 
line 965, in mainloop
   File 
"/private/automount/usr/local/src/staff/chimera-build/Darwin-X11/install/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.3/site-packages/Pmw/Pmw_1_2/lib/PmwBase.py", 
line 1751, in __call__
   File 
"/private/automount/usr/local/src/staff/chimera-build/Darwin-X11/install/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.3/site-packages/Pmw/Pmw_1_2/lib/PmwBase.py", 
line 1814, in _reporterror
   File 
"/private/automount/usr/local/src/staff/chimera-build/Darwin-X11/install/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.3/site-packages/Pmw/Pmw_1_2/lib/PmwBase.py", 
line 1377, in displayerror
   File 
"/private/automount/usr/local/src/staff/chimera-build/Darwin-X11/install/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.3/site-packages/Pmw/Pmw_1_2/lib/PmwBase.py", 
line 1747, in __call__
   File "base.py", line 495, in activate
   File "base.py", line 80, in menuActivate
   File "StdTools.py", line 81, in activate
   File "StdTools.py", line 206, in raiseViewingTab
AttributeError: ViewerDialog instance has no attribute 'nb'
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