How To Install jmol on Fedora 34

jmol is Java viewer for chemical structures in 3D

Introduction

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

What is jmol

Jmol is a free, open source molecule viewer for students, educators, and researchers in chemistry and biochemistry.

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

Install jmol 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 jmol using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install jmol

Install jmol 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 jmol using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install jmol

How To Uninstall jmol on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove jmol

jmol Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/jmol
/usr/share/applications/jmol.desktop
/usr/share/doc/jmol
/usr/share/doc/jmol/CHANGES.txt
/usr/share/doc/jmol/ChangeLog.html
/usr/share/doc/jmol/README.txt
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/jmol.svg
/usr/share/java/jmol
/usr/share/java/jmol/Jmol.jar
/usr/share/java/jmol/JmolData.jar
/usr/share/java/jmol/JmolLib.jar
/usr/share/java/jmol/Jvxl.jar
/usr/share/licenses/jmol
/usr/share/licenses/jmol/COPYRIGHT.txt
/usr/share/licenses/jmol/LICENSE.txt
/usr/bin/jmol
/usr/share/applications/org.jmol.jmol.desktop
/usr/share/doc/jmol
/usr/share/doc/jmol/CHANGES.txt
/usr/share/doc/jmol/ChangeLog.html
/usr/share/doc/jmol/README.txt
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/jmol.svg
/usr/share/java/jmol
/usr/share/java/jmol/Jmol.jar
/usr/share/java/jmol/JmolData.jar
/usr/share/java/jmol/JmolLib.jar
/usr/share/java/jmol/Jvxl.jar
/usr/share/licenses/jmol
/usr/share/licenses/jmol/COPYRIGHT.txt
/usr/share/licenses/jmol/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/metainfo/org.jmol.jmol.metainfo.xml

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Summary

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