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patrickfuller / imolecule

An embeddable webGL molecule viewer and file format converter.
http://patrickfuller.github.io/imolecule/
MIT License
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Update README.md #30

Closed CorySimon closed 8 years ago

CorySimon commented 8 years ago

I had SO much trouble installing OpenBabel in Ubuntu. 'sudo apt-get install python-openbabel' worked seamlessly. (Just to save others trouble)

patrickfuller commented 8 years ago

I like the overall idea, but I'd advise against installing through apt-get. The last apt-get release of openbabel is about 4 years old, and there have been a lot of upgrades in that time.

Openbabel's organization is planning on releasing a new version in the coming months, at which point imolecule's install scripts will be able to incorporate openbabel. Until then, I'd recommend installing openbabel through conda. Set your ~/.condarc to:

channels:
  - defaults
  - asmeurer
  - rwest
  - rmg
  - patrickfuller

and then install with conda install -c patrickfuller openbabel.