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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

Documentation

• Python module

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

First install OpenBabelGUI (above)

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 2.2.0 stable release

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, 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:

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

Compile Open Babel using Apple's Developer Tools