How To Install nwchem on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install nwchem on Rocky Linux 8. nwchem is Delivering High-Performance Computational Chemistry to Science

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nwchem on Rocky Linux 8.

What is nwchem

NWChem aims to provide its users with computational chemistry tools that are scalable both in their ability to treat large scientific computational chemistry problems efficiently, and in their use of available parallel computing resources from high-performance parallel supercomputers to conventional workstation clusters. Please cite the following reference when publishing results obtained with NWChem M. Valiev, E.J. Bylaska, N. Govind, K. Kowalski, T.P. Straatsma, H.J.J. van Dam, D. Wang, J. Nieplocha, E. Apra, T.L. Windus, W.A. de Jong, “NWChem large scale molecular simulations” Comput. Phys. Commun. 181, 1477 (2010) There is currently no serial version built.

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

Install nwchem 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 nwchem using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install nwchem

Install nwchem 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 nwchem using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nwchem

How To Uninstall nwchem on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the nwchem package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove nwchem

nwchem Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

References

Summary

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