Category:Installation

• 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 v2.4.1 Installer 64-bit 32-bit

Documentation

• Python module (requires OpenBabelGUI above)

Provides access to the Open Babel libraries from Python. The current version is 1.7.

• Java library (requires OpenBabelGUI above)

Provides access to the Open Babel libraries from Java.

• OBDotNet assembly (requires OpenBabelGUI above)

Provides access to the Open Babel libraries from .NET languages.

The following options are only recommended for experienced developers.

• Compile from source

Download 2.4.1 stable release

or Get latest development code

Compile instructions

Open Babel can be compiled using any of MSVC++, Cygwin or MinGW

• Compile from source

Compile Open Babel:

Download 2.4.1 stable release

or Get latest development code (today)

How to compile

How to use obabel

How to develop with Open Babel

Scripting language modules:

Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, Mono

• 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'

A snap package is available which works on Ubuntu 16.04 (at least): snap install openbabel

There are several ways to install Open Babel on MacOSX:

• With Conda, conda install openbabel
• With HomeBrew, brew install open-babel
• Compile the source code

Compile Open Babel using clang or gcc

Once installed, you may wish to try iBabel, a graphical interface to Open Babel.