How To Install hypre-openmpi on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install hypre-openmpi on Rocky Linux 8. hypre-openmpi is High performance matrix preconditioners - openmpi

Introduction

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

What is `hypre-openmpi`

Hypre is a set of matrix preconditioning libraries to aid in the solution of large systems of linear equations. This is the openmpi version.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install hypre-openmpi

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

sudo yum -y install hypre-openmpi

How To Uninstall hypre-openmpi on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove hypre-openmpi

hypre-openmpi Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e/c97a45e81043ef5c80d3b499f3c2386ef2239e
/usr/lib64/openmpi/lib/libHYPRE.so.2
/usr/lib64/openmpi/lib/libHYPRE.so.2.1
/usr/share/doc/hypre-openmpi
/usr/share/doc/hypre-openmpi/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/hypre-openmpi/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/hypre-openmpi
/usr/share/licenses/hypre-openmpi/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/licenses/hypre-openmpi/LICENSE-APACHE
/usr/share/licenses/hypre-openmpi/LICENSE-MIT

References

hypre-openmpi website

Summary

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