How To Install chemtool on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install chemtool on CentOS 7. chemtool is A program for 2D drawing organic molecules

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install chemtool on CentOS 7.

What is chemtool

Chemtool is a program for drawing organic molecules easily and store them in a variety of output formats including as a X bitmap, Xfig, SVG or EPS file. It runs under the X Window System using the GTK widget set.

We can use yum or dnf to install chemtool on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install chemtool.

Install chemtool on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install chemtool

Install chemtool on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install chemtool

How To Uninstall chemtool on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove chemtool

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install chemtool on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.