How To Install fftw-libs-long on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install fftw-libs-long on Rocky Linux 8. fftw-libs-long is FFTW library, long double precision

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fftw-libs-long on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `fftw-libs-long`

This package contains the FFTW library compiled in long double precision.

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

Install fftw-libs-long 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 fftw-libs-long using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fftw-libs-long

Install fftw-libs-long 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 fftw-libs-long using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fftw-libs-long

How To Uninstall fftw-libs-long on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the fftw-libs-long package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove fftw-libs-long

fftw-libs-long Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/28
/usr/lib/.build-id/28/7f5f32b1536db5289e3640a1661872a7258a50
/usr/lib/.build-id/51
/usr/lib/.build-id/51/433ff467f224cfcbac9e10588d21769630b1ce
/usr/lib/.build-id/9c
/usr/lib/.build-id/9c/fb44c730313be9393358a904431ea6e1fa9a79
/usr/lib64/libfftw3l.so.3
/usr/lib64/libfftw3l.so.3.5.5
/usr/lib64/libfftw3l_omp.so.3
/usr/lib64/libfftw3l_omp.so.3.5.5
/usr/lib64/libfftw3l_threads.so.3
/usr/lib64/libfftw3l_threads.so.3.5.5
/usr/share/doc/fftw-libs-long
/usr/share/doc/fftw-libs-long/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/fftw-libs-long/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/fftw-libs-long/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/fftw-libs-long/README
/usr/share/doc/fftw-libs-long/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/fftw-libs-long
/usr/share/licenses/fftw-libs-long/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/fftw-libs-long/COPYRIGHT
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/71
/usr/lib/.build-id/71/1d6c3cf451c76d2a3f6b57572b7cb2acee8450
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0/be47b0568ee0accd4d9180268a84062e620121
/usr/lib/.build-id/f8
/usr/lib/.build-id/f8/b0639545a557bd13bf20f4883d400ec2c3e1e1
/usr/lib/libfftw3l.so.3
/usr/lib/libfftw3l.so.3.5.5
/usr/lib/libfftw3l_omp.so.3
/usr/lib/libfftw3l_omp.so.3.5.5
/usr/lib/libfftw3l_threads.so.3
/usr/lib/libfftw3l_threads.so.3.5.5
/usr/share/doc/fftw-libs-long
/usr/share/doc/fftw-libs-long/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/fftw-libs-long/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/fftw-libs-long/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/fftw-libs-long/README
/usr/share/doc/fftw-libs-long/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/fftw-libs-long
/usr/share/licenses/fftw-libs-long/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/fftw-libs-long/COPYRIGHT

References

fftw-libs-long website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fftw-libs-long on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.