How To Install smiles-scripts on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install smiles-scripts on Debian 12.
What is smiles-scripts
smiles-scripts is:
Package provides command line tools to work with Simplified Molecular-Input Line-Entry System (SMILES) descriptors. Package contains command line interface scripts for Chemistry Development Kit (CDK), as well as a syntax checker for SMILES.
There are three methods to install smiles-scripts 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 smiles-scripts Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install smiles-scripts using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install smiles-scripts
Install smiles-scripts Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install smiles-scripts using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install smiles-scripts
Install smiles-scripts 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 smiles-scripts using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install smiles-scripts
How To Uninstall smiles-scripts on Debian 12
To uninstall only the smiles-scripts package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove smiles-scripts
Uninstall smiles-scripts And Its Dependencies
To uninstall smiles-scripts and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove smiles-scripts
Remove smiles-scripts Configurations and Data
To remove smiles-scripts configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge smiles-scripts
Remove smiles-scripts configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove smiles-scripts configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge smiles-scripts
Dependencies
smiles-scripts have the following dependencies:
- libchemistry-file-mdlmol-perl
- libchemistry-mol-perl
- libchemistry-opensmiles-perl
- libclone-perl
- libgetopt-long-descriptive-perl
- libgraph-nauty-perl
- libsmiles-scripts-java
- libsmiles-scripts-perl
- libxml-libxml-perl
- perl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install smiles-scripts package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
