How To Install apbs on Fedora 34

apbs is Adaptive Poisson Boltzmann Solver

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install apbs on Fedora 34.

What is `apbs`

APBS is a software package for the numerical solution of the Poisson-Boltzmann equation (PBE), one of the most popular continuum models for describing electrostatic interactions between molecular solutes in salty, aqueous media. APBS was designed to efficiently evaluate electrostatic properties for such simulations for a wide range of length scales to enable the investigation of molecules with tens to millions of atoms. It is also widely used in molecular visualization (in such applications as PyMOL).

We can use yum or dnf to install apbs on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install apbs.

Install apbs on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install apbs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install apbs

Install apbs on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install apbs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install apbs

How To Uninstall apbs on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the apbs package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove apbs

apbs Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/apbs
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/38
/usr/lib/.build-id/38/e619c36c81b4931b68c737697267407046612c

References

apbs website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install apbs on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.