hai !
i want to find an quivalent open souece s/w to chemdraw. I am in search of the best. I am asking for help becouse i don't know much about chemistry (s/w is for my chem. students)
I am looking for a s/w that can plot molecular structures in 3d and also reflet the features

Hello,

take a look at this address:

http://www.linuxsoft.cz/en/sw_list.php?id_kategory=133

thanks!
I have downloaded th tarball. let met try it.

hello!
Any information on Rasmol?

Here is the opensource version of chemdraw for Linux. It's called Xdrawchem and is supposed to be pretty close to chemdraw.

http://xdrawchem.sourceforge.net/

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i have down loaded the the rpm but failed to install. The error is
error: xdrawchem-1.7.7-1RH9.i386.rpm: MD5 digest: BAD Expected(5576a99eed53cb9ca7f1b1a560688ff8) != (d3b95a2bd2f9d8250aba58bf368198ab)
error: xdrawchem-1.7.7-1RH9.i386.rpm cannot be installed

what is it?

That means that you probably got a bad download. The md5 check sum doesn't appear to match. I would delete it and download a new copy.

Are you familiar with md5 checksum?

I don't know any thing about md5 checksum.
I had already downloaded a new copy (from the same mirror site) but same message appeared. So i downloaded the source code package tarball . Again there occured another problem.
I have already installed the open babel's required version. but when i run the command
the following error appeared.
$./configure --without-openbabel
...........................
Package openbabel was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `openbabel.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
..................................

how can i modify PKG_CONFIG_PATH

eagerly waiting for the reply

hello!
i have added the .pc file to /usr/lib/pkg-config.
and the problem is solved.

Awesome! sorry, I missed the post last night. How's the program? Does it work for your needs?

yes!! it works
Thank u very much