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The openbabel Portfile 50984 2009-05-14 21:08:43Z and.damore macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0

Name: openbabel
Version: 2.2.0
Category: science devel
Platform: darwin
Maintainers: gmail.com:beatrupp
Description: A chemistry file translation program.
Long Description: Open Babel is a free, open-source version of the Babel chemistry file translation program. OpenBabel is a project designed to pick up where Babel left off, as a cross-platform program and library designed to interconvert between many file formats used in molecular modeling and computational chemistry.
Homepage: http://openbabel.sourceforge.net/
Master Sites: sourceforge
Checksums: md5 643a18c7ba09254d36e93afd6277346f
configure.args --mandir=${prefix}/share/man
depends_lib port:libiconv port:libxml2 port:zlib


platform darwin 7 {
depends_build port:libtool
configure.env LIBTOOL=${prefix}/bin/glibtool
build.args LIBTOOL=${prefix}/bin/glibtool
destroot.args LIBTOOL=${prefix}/bin/glibtool
}

If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.
Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:

%  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/openbabel
%  sudo port install openbabel  
Password: 

You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

--->  Fetching openbabel
--->  Verifying checksum for openbabel
--->  Extracting openbabel
--->  Configuring openbabel
--->  Building openbabel with target all

--->  Staging openbabel into destroot

--->  Installing openbabel

- Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using openbabel with these commands:

%  man openbabel
%  apropos openbabel
%  which openbabel
%  locate openbabel

 Where to find more information: