Category:Installation

• Open Babel GUI

Provides a graphical user interface for Open Babel, as well as a command-line interface.

Get the latest installer for 64-bit (recommended) or 32-bit (has "-x86" in name).

Documentation

• Python module (requires OpenBabelGUI above)

Provides access to the Open Babel libraries from Python.

• 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 the source for the latest 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 the latest 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. For scripting languages, the package may be named like 'openbabel-perl' or 'python-openbabel'

Alternatively, with Conda: conda install openbabel -c conda-forge

Also available as a snap package: snap install openbabel

There are several ways to install Open Babel on MacOSX:

• With Conda, conda install -c conda-forge 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.