Moin Steve
> I have just installed Openbabel on Ubuntu Linux 9.04. I am new to both
> Linux and OB, and I was wondering:
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> How can I tell what version of OpenBabel I have installed? Is there a
> command I can run?
Open a shell and type "babel -v". The output should look like this:
cars...@linux-4637:~> babel -v
No output file or format spec!
Open Babel 2.2.2 -- Sep 24 2009 -- 09:54:44
Usage: babel [-i<input-type>] <name> [-o<output-type>] <name>
Try -H option for more information.
> When a new version comes out, do I have to uninstall the old version before
> installing the new one? How DO I uninstall it if I decide to do that?
Ubuntu should take care of this. Depending which tool you use it is just the
usual "update the system" command ("apt-get upgrade ; apt-get update" I think
for Ubuntu on the shell).
But distributions often don't update versions. So to get a more recent version
you will have to update the whole disto (in your case the 9.10 version of
Ubuntu once released), compile OB yourself or use an extra-repository that may
or may not exist for Ubuntu (I am not using Ubuntu so I am not sure if there
is one for OpenBabel).
The usual update-mechanism will give you bugfixes or perhaps improved packages
(for example security issues or crashes fixed).
Carsten
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