How To Install cclib-cda on CentOS 8

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install cclib

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install cclib

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is cclib-cda and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running CentOS 8. This guide was written specifically with a server running CentOS 8 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install cclib-cda on CentOS 8. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install cclib-cda on CentOS 8 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install cclib-cda using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cclib

Install cclib-cda on CentOS 8 using yum

Because cclib-cda is available in CentOS 8’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install cclib-cda package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cclib

How to upgrade (update) a single package cclib-cda using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like cclib-cda in this example you should use the following command:

yum update cclib

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade cclib

How to Upgrade cclib-cda on CentOS 8 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update cclib

How To remove cclib-cda from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the cclib-cda package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove cclib

Extra info and code examples

A Python library that provides parsers for computational chemistry log files. It also provides a platform to implement algorithms in a package-independent manner. This package contains helper scripts for end users. If you are looking for the unit tests and data files managed by cclib, they are distributed separately as in non-free package cclib-data.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install cclib-cda using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the cclib-cda from CentOS 8.

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