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mmdb


Information about the package, mmdb, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The mmdb package is designed for, Macromolecular coordinate library.


Package Name:

mmdb

Summary:

Macromolecular coordinate library

Description:

MMDB is a macromolecular coordinate library, written by Eugene Krissinel primarily for use by the collaborative computational project 4 (CCP4) group in the United Kingdom. The Coordinate Library is designed to assist CCP4 developers in working with coordinate files. The Library features work with the primary file formats of the Protein Data Bank (PDB), the PDB file format and the mmCIF file format. The Library provides various high-level tools for working with coordinate files, which include not only reading and writing, but also orthogonal-fractional coordinate transforms, generation of symmetry mates, editing the molecular structure and some others. The Library is supposed as a general low-level tool for unifying the coordinate-related operations. This package contains the shared library components needed for programs that have been compiled with the mmdb library.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

1.21

Release:

2.el6

Size:

347 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

LGPLv3



Handy Yum Commands for mmdb


Control the mmdb package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install mmdb

This command will install mmdb on the server.

yum remove mmdb

This command will un-install mmdb on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove mmdb, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove mmdb

This command will un-install mmdb 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 mmdb when using the -y flag.

yum update mmdb

This command will update mmdb to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove mmdb, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update mmdb

This command will update mmdb 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 mmdb when using the -y flag.

yum info mmdb

This command will show you core information about the mmdb package.

yum deplist mmdb

This command will show you the dependencies for mmdb. 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 mmdb

This command will check if there is an update waiting on mmdb. 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.