How To Install openblas-serial64 on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install openblas-serial64 on Rocky Linux 8. openblas-serial64 is An optimized BLAS library based on GotoBLAS2, serial version

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install openblas-serial64 on Rocky Linux 8.

What is openblas-serial64

OpenBLAS is an optimized BLAS library based on GotoBLAS2 1.13 BSD version. The project is supported by the Lab of Parallel Software and Computational Science, ISCAS. http This package contains the sequential library compiled with a 64-bit interface.

We can use yum or dnf to install openblas-serial64 on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install openblas-serial64.

Install openblas-serial64 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 openblas-serial64 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install openblas-serial64

Install openblas-serial64 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 openblas-serial64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install openblas-serial64

How To Uninstall openblas-serial64 on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the openblas-serial64 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove openblas-serial64

openblas-serial64 Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb/7b15091d2275d3964a5e03df50825c57a1178a
/usr/lib64/libopenblas64-r0.3.12.so
/usr/lib64/libopenblas64.so.0

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install openblas-serial64 on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.