Information about the package, openbabel, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The openbabel package is designed for, Chemistry software file format converter.
Package Name:
openbabel
Summary:
Chemistry software file format converter
Description:
Open Babel is a free, open-source version of the Babel chemistry file translation program. Open Babel is a project designed to pick up where Babel left off, as a cross-platform program and library designed to interconvert between many file formats used in molecular modeling, computational chemistry, and many related areas. Open Babel includes two components, a command-line utility and a C++ library. The command-line utility is intended to be used as a replacement for the original babel program, to translate between various chemical file formats. The C++ library includes all of the file-translation code as well as a wide variety of utilities to foster development of other open source scientific software.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.2.3
Release:
1.el6
Size:
2.1 M
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2
Control the openbabel package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install openbabel
This command will install openbabel on the server.
yum remove openbabel
This command will un-install openbabel on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove openbabel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove openbabel
This command will un-install openbabel 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 openbabel when using the -y flag.
yum update openbabel
This command will update openbabel to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove openbabel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update openbabel
This command will update openbabel 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 openbabel when using the -y flag.
yum info openbabel
This command will show you core information about the openbabel package.
yum deplist openbabel
This command will show you the dependencies for openbabel. 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 openbabel
This command will check if there is an update waiting on openbabel. 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.