How To Install lammps on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lammps
on Fedora 34.
What is lammps
LAMMPS is a classical molecular dynamics code, and an acronym for Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator. LAMMPS has potentials for soft materials (biomolecules, polymers) and solid-state materials (metals, semiconductors) and coarse-grained or mesoscopic systems. It can be used to model atoms or, more generically, as a parallel particle simulator at the atomic, meso, or continuum scale. LAMMPS runs on single processors or in parallel using message-passing techniques and a spatial-decomposition of the simulation domain. The code is designed to be easy to modify or extend with new functionality. lammps 20201029 8.fc34 x86_64 12 M lammps-20201029-8.fc34.src.rpm updates Molecular Dynamics Simulator https GPLv2 LAMMPS is a classical molecular dynamics code, and an acronym for Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator. LAMMPS has potentials for soft materials (biomolecules, polymers) and solid-state materials (metals, semiconductors) and coarse-grained or mesoscopic systems. It can be used to model atoms or, more generically, as a parallel particle simulator at the atomic, meso, or continuum scale. LAMMPS runs on single processors or in parallel using message-passing techniques and a spatial-decomposition of the simulation domain. The code is designed to be easy to modify or extend with new functionality.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install lammps
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lammps.
Install lammps on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install lammps
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install lammps
Install lammps on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install lammps
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install lammps
How To Uninstall lammps on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the lammps
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove lammps
lammps Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/binary2txt
/usr/bin/chain.x
/usr/bin/lammps-shell
/usr/bin/lmp
/usr/bin/msi2lmp
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/01
/usr/lib/.build-id/01/b251476fcf04cb83b3bed8527045e57551adf8
/usr/lib/.build-id/0d
/usr/lib/.build-id/0d/854ab2baaf3d1da9f424b32fbf65c2dad3fe89
/usr/lib/.build-id/66
/usr/lib/.build-id/66/dcfcdab04c169a466e73c30ba946a4cd5257ef
/usr/lib/.build-id/9b
/usr/lib/.build-id/9b/8cbca0a03922af2e3ccdab22223893718c80d3
/usr/lib/.build-id/dc
/usr/lib/.build-id/dc/4e88508fb09f50a41ede1caaab13189f4d6903
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9/e9357a2d8714b2dc376d4b488579372913d20e
/usr/lib64/liblammps.so.0
/usr/share/doc/lammps
/usr/share/doc/lammps/README
/usr/share/licenses/lammps
/usr/share/licenses/lammps/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/lmp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/msi2lmp.1.gz
/usr/bin/binary2txt
/usr/bin/chain.x
/usr/bin/lammps-shell
/usr/bin/lmp
/usr/bin/msi2lmp
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/04
/usr/lib/.build-id/04/5bcb4f6f2b3c0315e6e73bf0f20bd78d4b95cf
/usr/lib/.build-id/0c
/usr/lib/.build-id/0c/0edc384adc56d7aac3541c662880f4228de7e5
/usr/lib/.build-id/14
/usr/lib/.build-id/14/cb7131df76ceb0c73e362af86ad57f9b662b00
/usr/lib/.build-id/45
/usr/lib/.build-id/45/8bbe9b43bf221b522660e1f86dae87d7533835
/usr/lib/.build-id/d6
/usr/lib/.build-id/d6/477be599652451b956b6f0ae6ccaa262bac4b6
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec/08154f49ec6a2d2f9fa516df166c44ca627b34
/usr/lib/liblammps.so.0
/usr/share/doc/lammps
/usr/share/doc/lammps/README
/usr/share/licenses/lammps
/usr/share/licenses/lammps/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/lmp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/msi2lmp.1.gz
/usr/bin/binary2txt
/usr/bin/chain.x
/usr/bin/lammps-shell
/usr/bin/lmp
/usr/bin/msi2lmp
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/49
/usr/lib/.build-id/49/463652b9f431959124e502f4fe98f50033dd48
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b/ecfe7e20f7942cb41fdc196920db6721f3e118
/usr/lib/.build-id/b5
/usr/lib/.build-id/b5/600a7c8e93cbc554ae7885970557a92752289b
/usr/lib/.build-id/bc
/usr/lib/.build-id/bc/cbe667d6789fc987c5e4b4ec914fad12e3e33f
/usr/lib/.build-id/c5
/usr/lib/.build-id/c5/7ec4659d7edacac07c82d732536d6c28deb917
/usr/lib/.build-id/d6
/usr/lib/.build-id/d6/bd6c05d6b1f7dad3dd808586a6eae37407cc65
/usr/lib64/liblammps.so.0
/usr/share/doc/lammps
/usr/share/doc/lammps/README
/usr/share/licenses/lammps
/usr/share/licenses/lammps/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/lmp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/msi2lmp.1.gz
/usr/bin/binary2txt
/usr/bin/chain.x
/usr/bin/lammps-shell
/usr/bin/lmp
/usr/bin/msi2lmp
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/82
/usr/lib/.build-id/82/eac9f88a9de56c08fdeb8dfe892f0709134191
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a/6a7ef6b5aaa4e804aeb39c90345f4bcc1b8c64
/usr/lib/.build-id/9a
/usr/lib/.build-id/9a/038574215b67bbc7bb9ec7ae789cd787067a16
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3/c4d14c47ca570f65237cdefbcddbc5c9baf600
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff/3445c56f589f4c09e8b47d494e6406f7942bec
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff/e7bd5aecbd427601b3e5c7bba12388a8b162b1
/usr/lib/liblammps.so.0
/usr/share/doc/lammps
/usr/share/doc/lammps/README
/usr/share/licenses/lammps
/usr/share/licenses/lammps/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/lmp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/msi2lmp.1.gz
References
- [lammps website](https://lammps.sandia.gov https://lammps.sandia.gov)
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lammps
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.