Molsketch is a free and open source 2D molecular editing tool for Windows, MacOS and Linux. Using this you can draw molecules easily and quick. It is based on OpenBabel library and export you output to PDF, SVG and all bitmap file formats. It is released under GNU General Public License v2.0. It comes with intelligent hydrogen atoms, real-time molecule information, create consistent bonds easily and more.
How to Install Molsketch on Ubuntu Linux
Molsketch is available as a flatpak package file from flathub repository.You need to install flatpak and flathub on your system. If you don’t have then follow below link for the installation tutorial.
Restart your system after the installation. Now open the terminal application using the ctrl+alt+t keys and run below Molsketch flatpak installation command. It will install the latest version of Molsketch on your system.
flatpak install flathub net.sourceforge.molsketch
After that you can open Molsketch using this command.
flatpak run net.sourceforge.molsketch
And uninstall Molsketch using
sudo flatpak uninstall net.sourceforge.molsketch
That’s it.
