[Chimera-users] Problems installing/running chimera

[Eric Pettersen]

Did you have an old version of Chimera installed in the same place  
before?  If you don't wipe out the old installation, the new version  
can wind up loading old versions of Chimera's DLLs instead of the  
newer ones.  We are revamping the installer to prevent overwriting  
old installations but that's not in a release yet.  Anyway, try  
wiping out your Chimera install directory and reinstalling and see  
what happens.

--Eric

On May 20, 2006, at 8:26 PM, Christian Schafmeister wrote:

>
> Hi there,
>
> I tried installing the latest snapshot of chimera for windows:
> chimera-1.2224-win32.exe as well as the production release 1.2199
> and I get an error when it tries to start up.
>
> Dialog box:
> pythonw.exe - Entry Point Not Found
> The procedure entry point ?pathSeparator at PathFactory@otf@@SADXZ could
> not be located in the dynamic link library libotf.dcl
>
> When I try chimera --debug
>
> I get File "C:\Program Files\Chimera\share\chimera\__init__.py",  
> line 15
> in ?
>     from _chimera import *
> ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be  
> found.
> Return code: 1
>
> I have python 2.4.2 already installed on my machine, is that causing a
> problem?
>
> Cheers,
>
> .Chris.
>
>
> -- 
> Christian E. Schafmeister, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor
> Chemistry Department
> University of Pittsburgh
>
>
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