How To Install gabedit on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gabedit
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is gabedit
gabedit is:
Gabedit is a graphical user interface to computational chemistry packages like:
- MPQC
- GAMESS-US
- Gaussian
- Molcas
- Molpro
- Q-Chem
These Ab Initio software packages might run locally or on a remote server (supporting FTP, RSH and SSH). Gabedit can display a variety of calculation results including most major molecular file formats. The advanced “Molecule Builder” allows one to rapidly sketch in molecules and examine them in 3D. Graphics can further be exported to various formats, including animations.
slurm-wlm-torque and gridengine-client are workload managers which provide wrappers for PBS commands. Gabedit also allows one to configure it for any other workload manager.
There are three methods to install gabedit
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gabedit Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gabedit
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gabedit
Install gabedit Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gabedit
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gabedit
Install gabedit 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install gabedit
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gabedit
How To Uninstall gabedit on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the gabedit
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gabedit
Uninstall gabedit And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gabedit
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gabedit
Remove gabedit Configurations and Data
To remove gabedit
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gabedit
Remove gabedit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gabedit
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gabedit
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gabedit
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.