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Source Download

NWChem source is available for download from https://github.com/nwchemgit/nwchem/releases

Compilation instructions can be found at this link

NWChem availability in Linux distributions

Debian: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=nwchem

Ubuntu: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nwchem

Fedora and EPEL: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/search/nwchem

Good search engine for NWChem Linux packages: https://pkgs.org/search/?q=nwchem

Example of NWChem RPM installation under RedHat 6 x86_64

sudo yum -y install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm
sudo yum update
sudo yum install nwchem

In order to run NWChem, you must type

module load mpi/openmpi-x86_64

The name of the NWChem executable is

nwchem_openmpi

Example of NWChem RPM installation under Centos 7 x86_64

sudo yum -y install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
sudo yum update
sudo yum install nwchem

In order to run NWChem, you must type

module load mpi/openmpi-x86_64

The name of the NWChem executable is

nwchem_openmpi

NWChem availability on macOS

NWChem can be installed from Homebrew, by executing the following commands

bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"

brew install nwchem
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