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• OpenBabelGUI

Provides a graphical user interface for Open Babel, as well as a command-line interface. This is what most users are looking for.

Download v2.2.0 Installer

Documentation

• Python module (requires OpenBabelGUI above)

Provides access to the Open Babel libraries from Python. The current version is 1.3 (04-Jul-08).

The following options are only recommended for experienced developers.

• Compile from source

Download 2.2.0 stable release

or Get latest development code

Instructions for MSVC++

Instructions for Cygwin

Instructions for MinGW

• Compile from source

Compile Open Babel:

Download 2.2.0 stable release

or Get latest beta release (15-Feb-09)

or Get latest development code (today)

How to compile

How to use babel and other tools

How to develop with Open Babel

Scripting language modules:

Perl, Python, Ruby (Java, Mono/C# coming soon)

• Install a binary package

Several Linux distributions provide binary packages. Some of these are more up-to-date than others.

Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu

Other RPM packages

Binary packages for scripting language modules may be named 'openbabel-perl', 'openbabel-python' or 'python-openbabel'

• iBabel -- *recommended*

A graphical interface to Open Babel.

To get the command-line tools you need to choose one of the following:

• Download v2.2.0 Installer -- *recommended*
• Fink
• MacPorts
• Compile the source code

Compile Open Babel using Apple's Developer Tools