How To Install openbabel on Fedora 34

openbabel is Chemistry software file format converter Chemistry software file format converter

Introduction

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

What is `openbabel`

Open Babel is a free, open-source version of the Babel chemistry file translation program. Open Babel is a project designed to pick up where Babel left off, as a cross-platform program and library designed to interconvert between many file formats used in molecular modeling, computational chemistry, and many related areas. This package contains the command-line utility, which is intended to be used as a replacement for the original babel program, to translate between various chemical file formats as well as a wide variety of utilities to foster development of other open source scientific software. openbabel 2.4.1 34.fc34 x86_64 156 k openbabel-2.4.1-34.fc34.src.rpm fedora Chemistry software file format converter https GPLv2 Open Babel is a free, open-source version of the Babel chemistry file translation program. Open Babel is a project designed to pick up where Babel left off, as a cross-platform program and library designed to interconvert between many file formats used in molecular modeling, computational chemistry, and many related areas. This package contains the command-line utility, which is intended to be used as a replacement for the original babel program, to translate between various chemical file formats as well as a wide variety of utilities to foster development of other open source scientific software.

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

Install openbabel 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 openbabel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install openbabel

Install openbabel 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 openbabel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install openbabel

How To Uninstall openbabel on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove openbabel

openbabel Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/babel
/usr/bin/obabel
/usr/bin/obchiral
/usr/bin/obconformer
/usr/bin/obdistgen
/usr/bin/obenergy
/usr/bin/obfit
/usr/bin/obgen
/usr/bin/obgrep
/usr/bin/obminimize
/usr/bin/obprobe
/usr/bin/obprop
/usr/bin/obrms
/usr/bin/obrotamer
/usr/bin/obrotate
/usr/bin/obspectrophore
/usr/bin/obsym
/usr/bin/obtautomer
/usr/bin/obthermo
/usr/bin/roundtrip
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/05
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/usr/share/man/man1/babel.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/obabel.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/obchiral.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/obconformer.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/obenergy.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/obfit.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/obgen.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/obgrep.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/obminimize.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/obprobe.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/obprop.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/obrotamer.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/obrotate.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/obspectrophore.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/roundtrip.1.gz
/usr/bin/babel
/usr/bin/obabel
/usr/bin/obchiral
/usr/bin/obconformer
/usr/bin/obdistgen
/usr/bin/obenergy
/usr/bin/obfit
/usr/bin/obgen
/usr/bin/obgrep
/usr/bin/obminimize
/usr/bin/obprobe
/usr/bin/obprop
/usr/bin/obrms
/usr/bin/obrotamer
/usr/bin/obrotate
/usr/bin/obspectrophore
/usr/bin/obsym
/usr/bin/obtautomer
/usr/bin/obthermo
/usr/bin/roundtrip
/usr/lib/.build-id
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/usr/share/man/man1/babel.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/obabel.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/obchiral.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/obconformer.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/obenergy.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/obfit.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/obgen.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/obgrep.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/obminimize.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/obprobe.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/obprop.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/obrotamer.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/obrotate.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/obspectrophore.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/roundtrip.1.gz

References

[openbabel website](https://openbabel.org/ https://openbabel.org/)

Summary

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