How To Install chemical-structures on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install chemical-structures on Kali Linux.

What is chemical-structures

chemical-structures is:

This web service allows one to browse a rich set of molecular structures provided by the package chemical-structures-data, and eventually have them translated to other open formats, thanks to openbabel.

There are three methods to install chemical-structures on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install chemical-structures Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install chemical-structures using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install chemical-structures

Install chemical-structures Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install chemical-structures using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install chemical-structures

Install chemical-structures Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install chemical-structures using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install chemical-structures

How To Uninstall chemical-structures on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the chemical-structures package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove chemical-structures

Uninstall chemical-structures And Its Dependencies

To uninstall chemical-structures and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove chemical-structures

Remove chemical-structures Configurations and Data

To remove chemical-structures configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge chemical-structures

Remove chemical-structures configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove chemical-structures configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge chemical-structures

Dependencies

chemical-structures have the following dependencies:

• debconf
• debconf
• python3
• openbabel
• sensible-utils
• chemical-structures-data

References

• chemical-structures website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install chemical-structures package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.