How To Install tng-doc on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install tng-doc on CentOS 7. tng-doc is Trajectory Next Generation binary format manipulation library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tng-doc on CentOS 7.

What is tng-doc

TRAJNG (Trajectory next generation) is a program library for handling molecular dynamics (MD) trajectories. It can store coordinates, and optionally velocities and the H-matrix. Coordinates and velocities are stored with user-specified precision. In addition, program specific information (text strings) can optionally be stored in the beginning of each file. Atomic labels can also optionally be stored once in the beginning of the file. This package contains the documentation.

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

Install tng-doc on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install tng-doc using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install tng-doc

Install tng-doc 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 tng-doc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install tng-doc

How To Uninstall tng-doc on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the tng-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove tng-doc

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Summary

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