Installation for Linux

There are three different packages available to install Open-Source PyMOL under Linux.

Install location: /opt/open-source-pymol

Debian-based distros (Ubuntu, PopOS!)

To install the DEB package, run the following command:

sudo dpkg -i open-source-pymol_3.1.0.4_amd64.deb

You can uninstall the DEB package with this command:

sudo dpkg -r open-source-pymol_3.1.0.4_amd64.deb

Red-Hat-based distros (Fedora, Suse, AlmaLinux)

To install the RPM package, run the following command:

sudo rpm -i open-source-pymol-3.1.0.4-1.x86_64.rpm

You can uninstall the RPM package with this command:

sudo rpm -e open-source-pymol-3.1.0.4-1.x86_64.rpm

Generic

Besides the DEB and RPM package it is possible to install Open-Source PyMOL using a .tar.gz file. That archive contains a portable installation and can be extracted using this command:

tar -xvf Open-Source-PyMOL-3.1.0.4.tar.gz

This will extract the archive in the current working directory. Feel free to move the extracted files anywhere you want.