How To Install petsc-mpich on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install petsc-mpich on Rocky Linux 8. petsc-mpich is Portable Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation (MPICH)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install petsc-mpich on Rocky Linux 8.

What is petsc-mpich

PETSc, pronounced PET-see (the S is silent), is a suite of data structures and routines for the scalable (parallel) solution of scientific applications modeled by partial differential equations.

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

Install petsc-mpich 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 petsc-mpich using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install petsc-mpich

Install petsc-mpich 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 petsc-mpich using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install petsc-mpich

How To Uninstall petsc-mpich on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the petsc-mpich package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove petsc-mpich

petsc-mpich Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/11
/usr/lib/.build-id/11/c6eb5310b6833ee758ffe11be631bacc3b8165
/usr/lib64/mpich/lib/libpetsc.so.3.11
/usr/lib64/mpich/lib/libpetsc.so.3.11.3
/usr/share/licenses/petsc-mpich
/usr/share/licenses/petsc-mpich/LICENSE

References

Summary

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