How To Install blacs-openmpi-devel on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install blacs-openmpi-devel on Rocky Linux 8. blacs-openmpi-devel is Development libraries for blacs (openmpi)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install blacs-openmpi-devel on Rocky Linux 8.

What is blacs-openmpi-devel

This package contains development libraries for blacs, compiled against openmpi.

We can use yum or dnf to install blacs-openmpi-devel on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install blacs-openmpi-devel.

Install blacs-openmpi-devel on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install blacs-openmpi-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install blacs-openmpi-devel

Install blacs-openmpi-devel on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install blacs-openmpi-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install blacs-openmpi-devel

How To Uninstall blacs-openmpi-devel on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the blacs-openmpi-devel package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove blacs-openmpi-devel

blacs-openmpi-devel Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/include/openmpi-x86_64
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4d/8a6fdfbd966603be86e7dd6ef0a58e7e3e8d48.2
/usr/lib64/openmpi/lib/libmpiblacs.so

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install blacs-openmpi-devel on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.