I suggest installing openbabel through anaconda which solved a similar issue for me. For that, you will need two steps:
1) Install anaconda: google how to do this. The installation is designed to be simple, so users with less experience with Linux can use it. 2) after installation of anaconda, type “conda install -c openbabel openbabel” in your terminal. You could also google the second step. After this you will have obabel working both with terminal and python. I did this last year and everything went through smoothly. I hope it works for you too. -Tayeb Tayeb Kakeshpour Graduate Research Assistant Jackson Research Group Michigan State University Department of Chemistry 578 S. Shaw Lane, room 535 East Lansing, MI 48824 kakes...@msu.edu > On Jan 8, 2019, at 10:49 AM, Ruben Kuiper <ruben.kui...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hi there, > > I'm trying to install Open Babel 2.4.1 on Fedora 29 and then access it > through Python 2.7.15, but when I try to I receive the following error > message: ImportError: No module named openbabel. > I'm pretty sure I did not receive any error messages during the installation, > so I'm wondering where it went wrong. > These are the commands I ran in order to install Open Babel, after > downloading and extracting Eigen 3.3.7 and downloading openbabel-2.4.1.tar.gz: > > $ tar zxf openbabel-2.4.1.tar.gz > $ mkdir build > $ cd build > $ cmake ../openbabel-2.4.1 > -DEIGEN3_INCLUDE_DIR=/home/my_name/Downloads/eigen-eigen-323c052e1731 > -DEIGEN3_VERSION_OK=ON -DPYTHON_BINDINGS=ON > -DPYTHON_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include/python2.7 > -DPYTHON_LIBRARY=/usr/lib64/python2.7/config/libpython2.7.so > $ make > $ sudo make install > $ export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib:$PYTHONPATH > > After that I opened Python in Terminal and received the aforementioned error > message by entering "import openbabel". > Any ideas on how I might fix this problem? > > Thanks in advance, > > Ruben. > > PS: I'm not very experienced with Linux or programming, so please keep that > in mind when trying to explain something. > _______________________________________________ > OpenBabel-discuss mailing list > OpenBabel-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openbabel-discuss
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