How To Install petsc-openmpi on Rocky Linux 8

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

Introduction

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

What is petsc-openmpi

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-openmpi on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install petsc-openmpi.

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

sudo dnf -y install petsc-openmpi

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

sudo yum -y install petsc-openmpi

How To Uninstall petsc-openmpi on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove petsc-openmpi

petsc-openmpi Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/01
/usr/lib/.build-id/01/40fcbe1ef003bdc1e064d74ec6f5ef8338b40b
/usr/lib64/openmpi/lib/libpetsc.so.3.11
/usr/lib64/openmpi/lib/libpetsc.so.3.11.3
/usr/share/licenses/petsc-openmpi
/usr/share/licenses/petsc-openmpi/LICENSE

References

Summary

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