How To Install lammps-devel on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install lammps-devel on Rocky Linux 8. lammps-devel is Development libraries for LAMMPS

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lammps-devel on Rocky Linux 8.

What is lammps-devel

LAMMPS is a classical molecular dynamics code, and an acronym for Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator. LAMMPS has potentials for soft materials (biomolecules, polymers) and solid-state materials (metals, semiconductors) and coarse-grained or mesoscopic systems. It can be used to model atoms or, more generically, as a parallel particle simulator at the atomic, meso, or continuum scale. LAMMPS runs on single processors or in parallel using message-passing techniques and a spatial-decomposition of the simulation domain. The code is designed to be easy to modify or extend with new functionality. This package contains development libraries for serial LAMMPS.

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

Install lammps-devel 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 lammps-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lammps-devel

Install lammps-devel 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 lammps-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lammps-devel

How To Uninstall lammps-devel on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the lammps-devel package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove lammps-devel

lammps-devel Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib64/liblammps.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/liblammps.pc
/usr/share/cmake/Modules
/usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindLAMMPS.cmake

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Summary

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