How To Install libgfortran on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libgfortran
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is libgfortran
This package contains Fortran shared library which is needed to run Fortran dynamically linked programs.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install libgfortran
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libgfortran.
Install libgfortran 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 libgfortran
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libgfortran
Install libgfortran 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 libgfortran
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libgfortran
How To Uninstall libgfortran on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the libgfortran
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libgfortran
libgfortran Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a7
/usr/lib/.build-id/a7/505295f9e65f1d789ca3df1711bde0574b4b6f
/usr/lib64/libgfortran.so.5
/usr/lib64/libgfortran.so.5.0.0
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f3
/usr/lib/.build-id/f3/81d31d96a142ce1829ef3abdef274555d71d96
/usr/lib/libgfortran.so.5
/usr/lib/libgfortran.so.5.0.0
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libgfortran
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.