Chimera on Intel FreeBSD Platforms

The Chimera release for FreeBSD was compiled on a FreeBSD 6.1 system. It has not been tested thoroughly.

Help files

Chimera uses a web browser to display help files. If chimera is unable to display help files, you can fix it by setting your BROWSER environment variable to "mozilla" or "kfm" before running Chimera (i.e. type export BROWSER=mozilla at the unix command line).

Downloading

Here's what you need to do to get chimera working on your FreeBSD system:

(1) Download Chimera release.

Only snapshot releases of Chimera (listed lower down on the download page) are available for FreeBSD.

Some browsers may download the file as chimera-get.py. If yours does, rename the file to chimera-installer.exe.

If you experience difficulty downloading the distribution, try this link as a simple test to see if the size of the Chimera distribution is causing problems. The link should download a small Python program to your computer. The only difference between this and the Chimera distribution download is the size of the file, so if the link works then something in your environment is blocking the downloading of very large files.

If this test download does not work, then something in your environment is blocking the download of any binary file (the download is sent using the http content type of "application/octet-stream").

You can try downloading the Chimera distribution to a different computer or from a different network that you are sure does not make use of a proxy web server.

(2) Run the downloaded executable file.

This will install Chimera. Some browsers do not make the downloaded file executable. If necessary, use the shell command chmod +x filename to make it executable. You might want to read the release notes.

(3) Update your runtime environment.

If CHIMERA is the top-level directory of the chimera installation, then you should add CHIMERA/bin to your command path. See your shell's documentation to figure out set the path or ask your system administrator.

Deinstallation

Chimera does not yet provide a deinstallation program. Instead, follow these deinstallation instructions.

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