How To Install blas64 on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install blas64 on Rocky Linux 8. blas64 is The Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms library (64bit INTEGER)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install blas64 on Rocky Linux 8.

What is blas64

BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) is a standard library which provides a number of basic algorithms for numerical algebra. This build has 64bit INTEGER support.

We can use yum or dnf to install blas64 on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install blas64.

Install blas64 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 blas64 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install blas64

Install blas64 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 blas64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install blas64

How To Uninstall blas64 on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the blas64 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove blas64

blas64 Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba/bc43ba9e46e08e6adbb40f8ce26cf150cc0e52
/usr/lib/.build-id/bd
/usr/lib/.build-id/bd/e542de6d00b9fde351201533b0a9a755f8c2c4
/usr/lib64/libblas64_.so.3
/usr/lib64/libblas64_.so.3.8
/usr/lib64/libblas64_.so.3.8.0
/usr/lib64/libcblas64_.so.3
/usr/lib64/libcblas64_.so.3.8
/usr/lib64/libcblas64_.so.3.8.0
/usr/share/doc/blas64
/usr/share/doc/blas64/LICENSE

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install blas64 on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.