To plot the Electron or Charge density we can use the VESTA tool. To install it we proceed as follows:

Download the package from the following link:

VESTA-gtk3-x86_64.tar.bz2 (ver. 3.90.3a, built on Oct 20 2024, 10.6MB) Requires GTK 3.22 or newer.

We need only to unpack the package

We need to install the GTK 3.22 or newer as follows:

$ sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev

And link the package to the VESTA tool as follows:

$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/home/abderrahmane/abinitio/VESTA-gtk3/

 

We need also to configure VESTA as follows:

#---------Vesta path----------------------------------
export VESTAROOT=/home/alkhawarizmi/abinitio/VESTA-gtk3
export PATH=$PATH:$VESTAROOT
#---------------------------------------------------------

 

To execute VESTA we execute the command

$ VESTA