How To Install ghemical on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install ghemical on Kali Linux. ghemical is GNOME molecular modelling environment

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ghemical on Kali Linux.

What is ghemical

ghemical is:

Ghemical is a computational chemistry software package written in C++. It has a graphical user interface and it supports both quantum- mechanics (semi-empirical) models and molecular mechanics models. Geometry optimization, molecular dynamics and a large set of visualization tools using OpenGL are currently available.

Ghemical relies on external code to provide the quantum-mechanical calculations. Semi-empirical methods MNDO, MINDO/3, AM1 and PM3 come from the MOPAC7 package (Public Domain), and are included in the package. The MPQC package is used to provide ab initio methods: the methods based on Hartree-Fock theory are currently supported with basis sets ranging from STO-3G to 6-31G**.

There are three methods to install ghemical 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 ghemical Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install ghemical

Install ghemical Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ghemical

Install ghemical 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 ghemical using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ghemical

How To Uninstall ghemical on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove ghemical

Uninstall ghemical And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ghemical

Remove ghemical Configurations and Data

To remove ghemical configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ghemical

Remove ghemical configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ghemical

Dependencies

ghemical have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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