How To Install blas64.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install blas64.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. blas64.x86_64 is The Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms library (64bit INTEGER)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install blas64.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `blas64.x86_64`

BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) is a standard library which provides a number of basic algorithms for numerical algebra. This build has 64bit INTEGER support.

We can use yum to install blas64.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install blas64.x86_64.

Install blas64.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install blas64.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install blas64.x86_64

How To Uninstall blas64.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the blas64.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove blas64.x86_64

blas64.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libblas64.so.3
/usr/lib64/libblas64.so.3.4
/usr/lib64/libblas64.so.3.4.2
/usr/share/doc/blas64-3.4.2
/usr/share/doc/blas64-3.4.2/LICENSE

References

blas64.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install blas64.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.