<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Apr 16, 2007, at 7:47 PM, Ben Keshet wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV class="Section1"><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Hello everybody,<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial"><O:P> <SPAN style="">I am a very inexperienced new user of Linux / cygwin and having problems in installing DMS and Chimera:</SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">1. I am trying to install DMS but having problems with specifying correctly the pathway to the appropriate locations of the BINDIR and LIBDIR directories in the GNUmakefile. I am getting a message: “Cannot create directory… not such file or directory”. I have tried it both on Linux enterprise 4 and on Windows using cygwin. My pathway includes spaces, i.e: /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/User Name/Desktop/dms/bin Can anyone please tell me how exactly I should enter the pathway (I think the spaces cause the problem but not sure)?<BR></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>Your assessment of spaces being the problem is probably correct. Try putting double quotes around the path (i.e. LIBDIR="path" and BINDIR="path").<BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV class="Section1"><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial"> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial"><O:P> <SPAN style="">2. I am having problems running the </SPAN><CODE style=""><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New">chimera-installer.exe</FONT></SPAN></CODE><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">.</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style=""> file of Chimera on Linux. When I double-clicked on it, it tells me that I cannot execute the file, so as suggested in the instructions (<A href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/1.2304/linux.html">http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/1.2304/linux.html</A>) I typed </SPAN><SPAN style="" courier="" new""=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New">chmod +x ‘filename’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""> . When I checked the properties of the file after </SPAN><SPAN style="" courier="" new""=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New">chmod</FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="">, the box of ‘execute’ was checked (so I believe that I really changed the file’s permissions). However, I am still getting the same error message when I double-click it. Does anyone know what am I doing wrong?</SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>Some Linux desktop managers are "smart" and "know" that files that end in .exe are Windows executables and will not let you execute them no matter what. You could try removing the .exe from the name and see if you are allowed to start it then. Otherwise you will have to start a terminal (probably under some system tools menu) and go to your desktop (type: cd ~/Desktop) and execute the installer directly (type: ./chimera-installer.exe). Let me know if you need more help.<BR></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>--Eric</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> Eric Pettersen</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> UCSF Computer Graphics Lab</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> <A href="mailto:pett@cgl.ucsf.edu">pett@cgl.ucsf.edu</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> <A href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu">http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu</A></DIV></DIV><BR></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>