[Chimera-users] Issue while importing Chimera's runCommand module

[Tom Goddard]

Hi Noe,

  There is not a PyPi chimera module so your "pip install chimera" was installing something else, something from 2006 with no description according to the PyPi web page (https://pypi.org/project/chimera/#description <https://pypi.org/project/chimera/#description>).

  Chimera is distributed as an application and you would just open your script file in Chimera 1.16.  Chimera includes its own copy of Python compatible with Chimera C++ libraries.  But you should instead use our newer program ChimeraX since we no longer developer Chimera.  ChimeraX is also an application that includes its own copy of Python.  We plan to distribute ChimeraX as a Python library but it is not yet available.

	Tom


> On Dec 6, 2022, at 1:52 AM, Noe Robert via Chimera-users <chimera-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> Good morning, 
> I'm trying to use a python script for ChimeraX version 1.5, to automate mutageneses on a specific protein. 
> As a first try, it looks like this :
> 
> from chimera import runCommand as rc
> rc("open " + "hERGts_compiled.pdb")
> rc("color red")
> rc("surf");
> 
> So it refers to the chimera module for the runCommand. I tried to install it on Python through the command pip but it failed : 
> 
> ################################# Example of my shell while trying to install chimera module  #######################
> PS C:> python3 -m pip install chimera
> Collecting chimera
>   Using cached chimera-0.4.7.tar.gz (355 kB)
>   Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
>   error: subprocess-exited-with-error
>   
>   กม python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
>   ฉฆ exit code: 1
>   จtฉค> [9 lines of output]
>       Traceback (most recent call last):
>         File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
>         File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <module>
>         File "C:\Users\CE PC\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-cfq97mii\chimera_bd7187074876462a9782eded8cb3a816\setup.py", line 1, in <module>
>           import ez_setup
>         File "C:\Users\CE PC\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-cfq97mii\chimera_bd7187074876462a9782eded8cb3a816\ez_setup.py", line 170
>           print "Setuptools version",version,"or greater has been installed."
>                 ^
>       [end of output]
> 
>   note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
> error: metadata-generation-failed
> 
> กม Encountered error while generating package metadata.
> จtฉค> See above for output.
> 
> note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
> hint: See above for details.
> ######################################################################################################
> 
> So it looks like the temporary file generated has an error that doesn't allow the installation of the module, and so I cannot use any command from my script as runCommand is not recognized. There seem to be no mention of this issue in the mail archive but one colleague encountered the same problem, which I find strange. Do you have an idea on how to solve this issue ? 
> 
> Thank you and have a great day,
> 
> Noจฆ Robert,
> Fifth-year student in bioengineering, minor in Bioinformatics and Modelling, at engineering school Polytech Nice Sophia, France
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