How To Install qutemol on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install qutemol on Debian 12.
What is qutemol
qutemol is:
QuteMol is an interactive, high quality molecular visualization system. It exploits the current GPU capabilities through OpenGL shaders to offer an array of innovative visual effects. QuteMol visualization techniques are aimed at improving clarity and an easier understanding of the 3D shape and structure of large molecules or complex proteins.
Qutemol uses advanced OpenGL techniques and might not work correctly with all video cards and drivers.
Features QuteMol offers include:
- Real time ambient occlusion
- Depth aware silhouette enhancement
- Ball-and-stick, space-filling and liquorice visualization modes
- High resolution antialiased snapshots for creating publication quality renderings
- Automatic generation of animated gifs of rotating molecules for web page animations
- Interactive rendering of macromolecules (>100k atoms)
QuteMol reads PDB files as input.
There are three methods to install qutemol on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install qutemol Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install qutemol using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install qutemol
Install qutemol Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install qutemol using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install qutemol
Install qutemol Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install qutemol using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install qutemol
How To Uninstall qutemol on Debian 12
To uninstall only the qutemol package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove qutemol
Uninstall qutemol And Its Dependencies
To uninstall qutemol and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove qutemol
Remove qutemol Configurations and Data
To remove qutemol configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge qutemol
Remove qutemol configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove qutemol configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge qutemol
Dependencies
qutemol have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libgcc-s1
- libgif7
- libgl1
- libglew2.2
- libglu1-mesa
- libpng16-16
- libstdc++6
- libwxbase3.2-1
- libwxgtk-gl3.2-1
- libwxgtk3.2-1
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install qutemol package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
