Install UCSF Chimera¶

Versions of UCSF Chimera:¶

Chimera has two pages and five sections for downloading the UCSF Chimera program:

• The main download page
  • Current production releases
  • Daily builds
  • Snapshot releases
  • Unsupported releases
• The old downloads page

There are two main versions available for linux the normal version and the headless version.

Install UCSF Chimera for a desktop computer¶

If you plan on using the install computer also as a desktop computer (i.e. you want to open MRC files and manipulate them in UCSF Chimera) then you should install version 1.2509. The last known version to work both in desktop mode and background mode for generating images without opening a window.

1. Go to the old downloads page at UCSF and search for 1.2509.
2. Download the Linux for 32bit machines and Linux 64-bit for 64bit machines
3. Save the file to your machine and go to the directory containing the file
4. Make the downloaded file executable:

   chmod 755 chimera-1.2509-linux_x86_64.exe

5. Execute the UCSF Chimera installer

   ./chimera-1.2509-linux_x86_64.exe

6. Choose a location to install the files (e.g., /usr/local/chimera)) and let it install all of its files

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