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.

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Documentation

• Python module

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

Download for Python 2.4

Download for Python 2.5

Documentation

The following options are only recommended for experienced developers.

• Compile from source

Download 2.1.1 stable release

or Get latest development code

Instructions for MSVC++

Instructions for Cygwin

Instructions for MinGW

• Compile from source

Compile Open Babel:

Download 2.1.1 stable release

or Get latest beta release (27-June-08)

or Get latest development code (today)

How to compile

How to use babel and other tools

How to develop with Open Babel

Compile scripting language modules (optional):

How to compile Perl and Python modules

Documentation: Perl, Python

• Install a binary package

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

Debian

Fedora 6

RedHat Enterprise Linux/Fedora (RPM)

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:

• v2.1.1 Binary installer -- *recommended*
• Fink
• MacPorts
• Compile the source code

Compile Open Babel using Apple's Developer Tools