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@@ -2,17 +2,19 @@ GEM for [OpenBabel](http://openbabel.sf.net), a chemical library by Geoff Hutchison and others. -openbabel gem has been tested with ruby 1.9. It only compiles on POSIX systems and requires the following to be installed already: +openbabel gem has been tested with ruby 1.9 and 2.0. It compiles only on POSIX systems and requires the following programs and libraries (details at http://openbabel.org/docs/2.3.0/Installation/install.html#compiling-open-babel): - * openbabel library - * cmake + * cmake 2.4.8 or later * curl * tar, sed, make (those should be present anyway) + * libxml2 (optional) + * zlib (optional) + * Eigen 2.0.3 or later (optional) ## Install gem install openbabel -It downloads the sources, compiles OpenBabel (if not installed) and the ruby bindings and installs them. +It downloads the sources, compiles and installs OpenBabel (if not installed system wide) and ruby bindings. If OpenBabel is not yet installed installation may last very long - please be patient. Check out [http://cs.maunz.de](http://cs.maunz.de) for more information. |