A snap package is like a Windows binary - all of the dependencies are bundled in. So not only will there be two Open Babels on your system (potentially), there will be two libxmls, two zlibs, two wxWidgets's, two gtks, etc, etc. I'm not going to defend this philosophy, so if this is a problem for you, either stick to the distro's Open Babel, or compile it yourself (which is pretty straightforward). My point was that all of the contents are stored in your ~/snap folder and can be removed easily via "sudo snap remove openbabel" and so will not interfere with your distro's packaging.
The reason I made a Snap package rather than an Ubuntu ppa is that in theory the Snap will run on many Linux distros. Of course, if someone else wishes to make a ppa (or Fedora equivalent, etc.), we would be happy to point people to it. Regards, - Noel On 10 October 2016 at 01:38, R. K. Belew <rbe...@ucsd.edu> wrote: > Thanks Noel, I think. what does this part mean? > > On 10/9/16 9:49 AM, Noel O'Boyle wrote: >> won't get mixed up with the packages provided by the distro. > > we don't two separate packages around do we? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > OpenBabel-discuss mailing list > OpenBabel-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openbabel-discuss ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ OpenBabel-discuss mailing list OpenBabel-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openbabel-discuss
