.. _spkg_benzene:

benzene: Generate fusenes and benzenoids with a given number of faces
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Description
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Benzene is a program for the efficient generation of all nonisomorphic
fusenes and benzenoids with a given number of faces. Fusenes are planar
polycyclic hydrocarbons with all bounded faces hexagons. Benzenoids are
fusenes that are subgraphs of the hexagonal lattice.

License
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Benzene is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2 or later
(June 2007)


Upstream Contact
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Benzene was written by Gunnar Brinkmann and Gilles Caporossi. This
version was adapted by Gunnar Brinkmann and Nico Van Cleemput for
Grinvin.

http://www.grinvin.org/

Type
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optional


Dependencies
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Version Information
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package-version.txt::

    20130630

Equivalent System Packages
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arch:

.. CODE-BLOCK:: bash

    $ sudo pacman -S  benzene


opensuse:

.. CODE-BLOCK:: bash

    $ sudo zypper install benzene


See https://repology.org/project/benzene/versions


However, these system packages will not be used for building Sage
because spkg-configure.m4 has not been written for this package;
see :trac:`27330`

