How To Install unuran on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install unuran on Rocky Linux 8. unuran is Universal Non-Uniform Random number generator

Introduction

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

What is unuran

UNU.RAN is an ANSI C library licensed under GPL. It contains universal (also called automatic or black-box) algorithms that can generate random numbers from large classes of continuous or discrete distributions, and also from practically all standard distributions. The library and an extensive online documentation are available at ——————————————- http ——————————————-

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

Install unuran 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 unuran using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install unuran

Install unuran 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 unuran using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install unuran

How To Uninstall unuran on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove unuran

unuran Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5a
/usr/lib/.build-id/5a/e62ea8b32209d7b0f3fee25292e90ed0ca1b5e
/usr/lib64/libunuran.so.15
/usr/lib64/libunuran.so.15.0.0
/usr/share/doc/unuran
/usr/share/doc/unuran/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/unuran/KNOWN-PROBLEMS
/usr/share/doc/unuran/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/unuran/README
/usr/share/doc/unuran/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/unuran/UPGRADE
/usr/share/info/unuran.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/unuran
/usr/share/licenses/unuran/COPYING

References

Summary

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