Error installing ChimeraX daily build (Dec 16, 2025 ) on Fedora 4

[jchristiandavid@…]

Hi team,

I was able to install ChimeraX 1.11 for generic linux using flatpak.  However, I ran into issues when running it running ChimeraX via flatpak.

$ flatpak run edu.ucsf.rbvi.ChimeraX
Gtk-Message: 14:26:59.612: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 14:26:59.612: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 14:26:59.612: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 14:26:59.613: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module"
WARNING: QXcbIntegration: Cannot create platform OpenGL context, neither GLX nor EGL are enabled
WARNING: QXcbIntegration: Cannot create platform OpenGL context, neither GLX nor EGL are enabled
WARNING: QRhiGles2: Failed to create temporary context
WARNING: QXcbIntegration: Cannot create platform offscreen surface, neither GLX nor EGL are enabled
WARNING: QXcbIntegration: Cannot create platform OpenGL context, neither GLX nor EGL are enabled
WARNING: QRhiGles2: Failed to create context
WARNING: QXcbIntegration: Cannot create platform OpenGL context, neither GLX nor EGL are enabled
WARNING: QRhiGles2: Failed to create temporary context
WARNING: QXcbIntegration: Cannot create platform offscreen surface, neither GLX nor EGL are enabled
WARNING: QXcbIntegration: Cannot create platform OpenGL context, neither GLX nor EGL are enabled
WARNING: QRhiGles2: Failed to create context
WARNING: Failed to create QRhi for QBackingStoreRhiSupport
WARNING: QXcbIntegration: Cannot create platform OpenGL context, neither GLX nor EGL are enabled
ERROR: Could not create OpenGL context
WARNING: QXcbIntegration: Cannot create platform OpenGL context, neither GLX nor EGL are enabled
WARNING: QRhiGles2: Failed to create temporary context
WARNING: QXcbIntegration: Cannot create platform offscreen surface, neither GLX nor EGL are enabled
WARNING: QXcbIntegration: Cannot create platform OpenGL context, neither GLX nor EGL are enabled
WARNING: QRhiGles2: Failed to create context
WARNING: Failed to create QRhi for QBackingStoreRhiSupport
WARNING: QQuickWidget: Failed to get a QRhi from the top-level widget's window
WARNING: QQuickWidget::resizeEvent() no QRhi
WARNING: QXcbIntegration: Cannot create platform OpenGL context, neither GLX nor EGL are enabled
WARNING: QRhiGles2: Failed to create temporary context
WARNING: QXcbIntegration: Cannot create platform offscreen surface, neither GLX nor EGL are enabled
WARNING: QXcbIntegration: Cannot create platform OpenGL context, neither GLX nor EGL are enabled
WARNING: QRhiGles2: Failed to create context
WARNING: Failed to create QRhi for QBackingStoreRhiSupport
WARNING: QQuickWidget: Failed to get a QRhi from the top-level widget's window


To give you context, I am running on linux (Fedora 43), with the default Gnome desktop (Wayland).  I have an NVIDIA graphics card (GeForce GTX 1050 mobile).  My laptop is a 2017/2018 Dell XPS 15".

I made sure to install the proprietary NVIDIA graphics cards.  Below are results from command line arguments that should give you an idea of what I have.  My current driver version is 580.119.02, which supports OpenGL 4.6, which is backwards compatible to OpenGL 3.3 (the minimum for ChimeraX).

$ lspci -nn | grep -Ei "nv|vga|3d|display"
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Kaby Lake-H GT2 [HD Graphics 630] [8086:591b] (rev 04)
01:00.0 3D controller [0302]: NVIDIA Corporation GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] [10de:1c8d] (rev a1)
04:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller [0108]: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd NVMe SSD Controller SM961/PM961/SM963 [144d:a804]

$ nvidia-smi
Wed Jan 14 14:47:40 2026
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 580.119.02             Driver Version: 580.119.02     CUDA Version: 13.0     |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |           Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                        |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050        Off |   00000000:01:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| N/A   30C    P8            N/A  / 5001W |       2MiB /   4096MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                              |
|  GPU   GI   CI              PID   Type   Process name                        GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                               Usage      |
|=========================================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A            5942      G   /usr/bin/gnome-shell                      1MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+


$ sudo dnf install libcanberra
[sudo] password for jdavid:
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Package "libcanberra-0.30-38.fc43.x86_64" is already installed.

Nothing to do.