Information about the package, vaspview, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The vaspview package is designed for, VASP Data Viewer.
Package Name:
vaspview
Summary:
VASP Data Viewer
Description:
This is a scientific visualization package for examining output files generated by the Vienna Ab-initio Simulation Package, a package for performing ab-initio quantum-mechanical molecular dynamics using pseudopotentials and a plane wave basis set. The project was initiated when a chemical engineering professor requested assitance in visualizing output files produced by the above package. It displays iso-surfaces and slices of a three-dimensional data set, along with the atoms that make up the molecule the calculations were performed for, and allows symbolic bonds to be inserted between them.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.05
Release:
4.el6
Size:
106 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the vaspview package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install vaspview
This command will install vaspview on the server.
yum remove vaspview
This command will un-install vaspview on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove vaspview, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove vaspview
This command will un-install vaspview on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove vaspview when using the -y flag.
yum update vaspview
This command will update vaspview to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove vaspview, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update vaspview
This command will update vaspview to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove vaspview when using the -y flag.
yum info vaspview
This command will show you core information about the vaspview package.
yum deplist vaspview
This command will show you the dependencies for vaspview. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update vaspview
This command will check if there is an update waiting on vaspview. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.