Re: [Open Babel] Snap Package for Open Babel

2016-10-10 Thread Noel O'Boyle
A snap package is like a Windows binary - all of the dependencies are bundled in. So not only will there be two Open Babels on your system (potentially), there will be two libxmls, two zlibs, two wxWidgets's, two gtks, etc, etc. I'm not going to defend this philosophy, so if this is a problem for y

Re: [Open Babel] Snap Package for Open Babel

2016-10-09 Thread R. K. Belew
Thanks Noel, I think. what does this part mean? On 10/9/16 9:49 AM, Noel O'Boyle wrote: > won't get mixed up with the packages provided by the distro. we don't two separate packages around do we? -- Check out the vibran

[Open Babel] Snap Package for Open Babel

2016-10-09 Thread Noel O'Boyle
"sudo snap install openbabel" will now install a Snap Package for Open Babel 2.4.0 on at least Ubuntu and Xubuntu. The commands are all prefaced by "openbabel." (e.g. openbabel.obgui, openbabel.obabel, etc. - hit Tab for autocompletion in bash) so they won't get mixed up with the packages provided