There was some talk recently about Blue Obelisk software available as Ubuntu / Debian packages. This morning I had trouble waking up, so hacked up a metapackage, so that you can now do:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:egonw
sudo aptitude install blueobelisk

Currently, it installs BODR, Kalzium, Gnome Chemistry Utils, Chemical-MIME, OpenBabel, and the CDK. Ideas, feature requests, patches, etc, welcome via GitHub.

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