How To Install qutemol on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install qutemol on Ubuntu.

What is `qutemol`

qutemol is:

QuteMol is an interactive, high quality molecular visualization system. It exploits the current GPU capabilities through OpenGL shaders to offer an array of innovative visual effects. QuteMol visualization techniques are aimed at improving clarity and an easier understanding of the 3D shape and structure of large molecules or complex proteins.

Qutemol uses advanced OpenGL techniques and might not work correctly with all video cards and drivers.

Features QuteMol offers include:

Real time ambient occlusion
Depth aware silhouette enhancement
Ball-and-stick, space-filling and liquorice visualization modes
High resolution antialiased snapshots for creating publication quality renderings
Automatic generation of animated gifs of rotating molecules for web page animations
Interactive rendering of macromolecules (>100k atoms)

QuteMol reads PDB files as input.

There are three methods to install qutemol on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install qutemol Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install qutemol using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install qutemol

Install qutemol Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install qutemol using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install qutemol

Install qutemol Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install qutemol using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install qutemol

How To Uninstall qutemol on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the qutemol package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove qutemol

Uninstall qutemol And Its Dependencies

To uninstall qutemol and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove qutemol

Remove qutemol Configurations and Data

To remove qutemol configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge qutemol

Remove qutemol configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove qutemol configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge qutemol

Dependencies

qutemol have the following dependencies:

References

qutemol website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install qutemol package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.