How To Install openblas-threads on Rocky Linux 8

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

Introduction

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

What is openblas-threads

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 library compiled with threading support.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install openblas-threads

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

sudo yum -y install openblas-threads

How To Uninstall openblas-threads on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove openblas-threads

openblas-threads Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f/2b16179af0ee8a8fb5071ab4a9736da7996fa8
/usr/lib64/libopenblasp-r0.3.12.so
/usr/lib64/libopenblasp.so.0
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9/855b482f2d673c014666b224037e76e88f6d2e
/usr/lib/libopenblasp-r0.3.12.so
/usr/lib/libopenblasp.so.0

References

Summary

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