How To Install inchi on Fedora 34

Introduction

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

What is inchi

The IUPAC International Chemical Identifier (InChITM) is a non-proprietary identifier for chemical substances that can be used in printed and electronic data sources thus enabling easier linking of diverse data compilations. It was developed under IUPAC Project 2000-025-1-800 during the period 2000-2004. Details of the project and the history of its progress are available from the project web site. This package contains the command line conversion utility.

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

Install inchi 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 inchi using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install inchi

Install inchi 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 inchi using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install inchi

How To Uninstall inchi on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove inchi

inchi Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/inchi-1
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/47
/usr/lib/.build-id/47/043a2e1a1a4bc483e33b0a49d13144f502ec06

References

• inchi website

Summary

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