How To Install boost169-openmpi on Rocky Linux 8

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install boost169-openmpi on Rocky Linux 8.

What is boost169-openmpi

Run-time support for Boost.MPI-OpenMPI, a library providing a clean C++ API over the OpenMPI implementation of MPI.

We can use yum or dnf to install boost169-openmpi on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install boost169-openmpi.

Install boost169-openmpi 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 boost169-openmpi using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install boost169-openmpi

Install boost169-openmpi 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 boost169-openmpi using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install boost169-openmpi

How To Uninstall boost169-openmpi on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the boost169-openmpi package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove boost169-openmpi

boost169-openmpi Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/44
/usr/lib/.build-id/44/548139725f8a5a6d89743999ee55a4d7e2e53a
/usr/lib/.build-id/62
/usr/lib/.build-id/62/1c528a8057b47dee18ed9ec195a44df042a2d4
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7/d9e6ffbeb99300470a3adc2c5c72dd6fea3c37
/usr/lib64/openmpi/lib/libboost_mpi.so.1.69.0
/usr/lib64/openmpi/lib/libboost_mpi_python27.so.1.69.0
/usr/lib64/openmpi/lib/libboost_mpi_python36.so.1.69.0
/usr/share/licenses/boost169-openmpi
/usr/share/licenses/boost169-openmpi/LICENSE_1_0.txt

References

• boost169-openmpi website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install boost169-openmpi on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.