[Chimera-users] trouble installing linux i386 executable

[Eric Pettersen]

Hi Blake,
	I've certainly had problems that "solved themselves" like that. :-)   
I hope further use of Chimera is less mysterious!

--Eric

On Sep 15, 2008, at 12:55 PM, Blake Mertz wrote:

> Eric,
>
> 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.
>
> Blake
>
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Eric Pettersen <pett at cgl.ucsf.edu>  
> wrote:
> Hi Blake,
> 	_Seems_ like it should work.  Running from the directory with the  
> Chimera installer, what is the output of the following commands:
>
> 	df .
> 	sudo pwd
> 	sudo ls -l
> 	sudo ls -ld .
> 	sudo ls -ld ..
>
> --Eric
>
>                         Eric Pettersen
>                         UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
>                         http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu
>
>
> On Sep 10, 2008, at 2:33 PM, Blake Mertz wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> My name is Blake, and I'm a postdoc at the U. of Arizona. I'm  
>> starting
>> to use Chimera after using Pymol for a long time, but have had  
>> trouble
>> getting it installed. After downloading the .exe file and changing it
>> to an executable, here is the error message I get:
>>
>> blake at omega:~/Desktop$ ls -l chimera-1.2540-linux.exe
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 blake blake 97898302 2008-09-10 14:12 chimera-1.2540- 
>> linux.exe
>> blake at omega:~/Desktop$ sudo ./chimera-1.2540-linux.exe
>> [sudo] password for blake:
>> sudo: unable to execute ./chimera-1.2540-linux.exe: No such file or  
>> directory
>>
>> There has to be something obvious I'm missing here, correct? I'm
>> running Ubuntu v. 8.04, if that helps. Thanks, and talk to you soon.
>>
>> Blake
>>
>> -- 
>> Research Assistant
>> Department of Chemistry
>> University of Arizona
>>
>> "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
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>
>
>
> -- 
> Research Assistant
> Department of Chemistry
> University of Arizona
>
> "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

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