[Chimera-users] Import error with chimera-1.2509-osx_x11.dmg, May 01, 2008

[Elaine Meng]

Hello,
As you have found, the most recent versions of Chimera do not support  
Mac OSX 10.3.  We had a "news" item on the home page last fall, which  
has since been displaced by newer messages, but here is the text:

November 16, 2007
Chimera production release v1.2470 is available. This is the last  
release to officially support Mac OS 10.3.  There have been several  
changes since the previous production release (v1.2422, June 2007).

Platform support depends on the availability of such machines to our  
group, and "older" systems may be dropped as most users migrate to  
newer OS versions.  It is always a balancing act as to where time/ 
effort should be spent.  Sorry about that,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                          meng at cgl.ucsf.edu
UCSF Computer Graphics Lab and Babbitt Lab
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco
                      http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/index.html



On May 31, 2008, at 9:54 AM, Randy Heiland wrote:

> I was going to try to reproduce your problem, but it looks like  
> they've already updated that snapshot since there is no 1.2509 now:
>
> http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/download.html
>
> You might try the latest, 1.2524, snapshot if you really need  
> something newer than the production release.
>
> -Randy
>
> On May 31, 2008, at 11:50 AM, Bruce D. Ray wrote:
>
>> I have a Mac G4 PPC running OS X 10.3.9 on which
>> previous versions of chimera have run without
>> incident.
>> I installed chimera-1.2509 of May 01, 2008 after
>> removing the chimera-1.2492 of Feb 11, 2008 I had been
>> using.  However, when I attempted to run
>> chimera-1.2509
>> it did not start and the following error messages were
>> written to the console.log file accessible by
>> console.app rather than to the X-terminal:
>>
>>      Traceback (most recent call last):
>>
>>        File
>> "/Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/share/__main__.py",
>>   line 65, in <module>
>>
>>          value = chimeraInit.init(sys.argv)
>>
>>        File
>> "/Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/share/chimeraInit.py",
>> line 279, in init
>>
>>          import chimera
>>
>>        File
>> "/Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/share/chimera/ 
>> __init__.py",
>> line 15, in <module>
>>
>>          from _chimera import *
>>
>>      ImportError: dynamic module does not define init
>> function (init_chimera)
>>
>>
>>
>> This appears to be specific to the Mac OS X version
>> as the Windows version of chimera-1.2509 works.
>> Obviously, I removed chimera-1.2509 from the Mac and
>> reinstalled chimera-1.2492 of Feb 11, 2008 which does
>> work on this Mac.
>>
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Bruce D. Ray, Ph.D.
>> Associate Scientist, and Operations Director
>> NMR Center
>> IUPUI
>> Physics Dept.
>> 402 N. Blackford St.
>> Indianapolis, IN  46202-3273
>>
>>
>>
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