How To Install blis on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install blis on Rocky Linux 8. blis is BLAS-like Library Instantiation Software Framework

Introduction

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

What is `blis`

BLIS is a portable software framework for instantiating high-performance BLAS-like dense linear algebra libraries. The framework was designed to isolate essential kernels of computation that, when optimized, immediately enable optimized implementations of most of its commonly used and computationally intensive operations. While BLIS exports a new BLAS-like API, it also includes a BLAS compatibility layer which gives application developers access to BLIS implementations via traditional BLAS routine calls. This packaging contains automatically-dispatched architecture-optimized kernels for some targets, notably recent x86_64. This is the serial version.

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

Install blis 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 blis using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install blis

Install blis 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 blis using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install blis

How To Uninstall blis on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove blis

blis Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/46
/usr/lib/.build-id/46/a64b9117e164eead313a36f606b4fc0a544498
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9/770d8b66fae49611dc69ee8e178ad96719614c
/usr/lib64/blisblas
/usr/lib64/blisblas/libblas.so
/usr/lib64/blisblas/libblas.so.3
/usr/lib64/libblis.so.2
/usr/lib64/libblis.so.2.1.0
/usr/share/doc/blis
/usr/share/doc/blis/CHANGELOG.gz
/usr/share/doc/blis/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/blis/README.Fedora
/usr/share/doc/blis/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/blis
/usr/share/licenses/blis/LICENSE

References

blis website

Summary

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