How To Install finalcif on Debian 12

Learn how to install finalcif on Debian 12 with this tutorial. finalcif is editor for Crystallographic Information Format

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install finalcif on Debian 12.

What is `finalcif`

finalcif is:

Finalcif is a full-featured CIF file editor to make editing and validation of CIF files easy. It collects all the information from a work folder needed in order to finalize a CIF file for publication. In any case, one can also import a valid CIF file to complete the information. In ideal cases, it takes one click to have a publication-ready file.

Essentially, one should have the corresponding CIF file for FinalCif in its original ‘work’ folder, which contains all other files such as SAINT list files, SADABS list file, SHELX list files, etc. that led to this CIF file.

Checking the final CIF file with the IUCr CheckCIF server is a one-click problem in FinalCif. One gets a web and PDF report or just a local PLATON CIF check for computers without internet.

FinalCif generates beautiful CIF reports in seconds for publication as MS Word files (also compatible with Openoffice etc.). The report includes tables of structure properties like R-values or atom parameters and a report text about the experiment conditions.

The button “save cif file” saves the current file under ’name’-finalcif.cif. FinalCif will never make changes to the original CIF file.

There are three methods to install finalcif on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install finalcif Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install finalcif

Install finalcif Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install finalcif using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install finalcif

Install finalcif Using aptitude

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

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install finalcif

How To Uninstall finalcif on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove finalcif

Uninstall finalcif And Its Dependencies

To uninstall finalcif and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove finalcif

Remove finalcif Configurations and Data

To remove finalcif configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge finalcif

Remove finalcif configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge finalcif

Dependencies

finalcif have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install finalcif package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.