<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Blake,<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I've certainly had problems that "solved themselves" like that. :-) I hope further use of Chimera is less mysterious!</div><div><br></div><div>--Eric</div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 15, 2008, at 12:55 PM, Blake Mertz wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Eric,<br><br>Thanks much for looking into that for me -- actually, I came back to my machine the next morning, ran the install command exactly as specified on the website, and it ran this time. I swear I wasn't hallucinating when I sent that message, so thanks again for taking the time. I'm definitely looking forward to using Chimera, as a former student in our research group had nothing but good things to say about it. Talk to you soon.<br> <br>Blake<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Eric Pettersen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pett@cgl.ucsf.edu">pett@cgl.ucsf.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div style="">Hi Blake,<div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>_Seems_ like it should work. Running from the directory with the Chimera installer, what is the output of the following commands:</div><div><br></div><div> <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>df .</div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>sudo pwd</div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>sudo ls -l</div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>sudo ls -ld .</div> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>sudo ls -ld ..</div><div><br></div><div>--Eric</div><div><br><div> <span style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" size="5" face="Helvetica"><span> <span> </span></span>Eric Pettersen</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" size="5" face="Helvetica"><span> <span> </span></span>UCSF Computer Graphics Lab</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" size="5" face="Helvetica"><span> </span><a href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu" target="_blank">http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu</a></font></div> <br></div></span> </div><br><div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><div>On Sep 10, 2008, at 2:33 PM, Blake Mertz wrote:</div><br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">Hi,<br><br>My name is Blake, and I'm a postdoc at the U. of Arizona. I'm starting<br> to use Chimera after using Pymol for a long time, but have had trouble<br>getting it installed. After downloading the .exe file and changing it<br>to an executable, here is the error message I get:<br><br>blake@omega:~/Desktop$ ls -l chimera-1.2540-linux.exe<br> -rwxr-xr-x 1 blake blake 97898302 2008-09-10 14:12 chimera-1.2540-linux.exe<br>blake@omega:~/Desktop$ sudo ./chimera-1.2540-linux.exe<br>[sudo] password for blake:<br>sudo: unable to execute ./chimera-1.2540-linux.exe: No such file or directory<br> <br>There has to be something obvious I'm missing here, correct? I'm<br>running Ubuntu v. 8.04, if that helps. Thanks, and talk to you soon.<br><br>Blake<br><br>-- <br>Research Assistant<br>Department of Chemistry<br> University of Arizona<br><br>"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have<br>perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe<br>that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be<br> attained." Marie Curie<br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Chimera-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu" target="_blank">Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu</a><br><a href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users" target="_blank">http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users</a><br> </div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Research Assistant<br>Department of Chemistry<br>University of Arizona<br><br>"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained." Marie Curie<br> </div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>