How To Install fftw-libs-long.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install fftw-libs-long.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. fftw-libs-long.x86_64 is FFTW library, long double precision

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fftw-libs-long.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `fftw-libs-long.x86_64`

This package contains the FFTW library compiled in long double precision.

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

Install fftw-libs-long.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 fftw-libs-long.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fftw-libs-long.x86_64

How To Uninstall fftw-libs-long.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the fftw-libs-long.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove fftw-libs-long.x86_64

fftw-libs-long.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libfftw3l.so.3
/usr/lib64/libfftw3l.so.3.3.2
/usr/lib64/libfftw3l_omp.so.3
/usr/lib64/libfftw3l_omp.so.3.3.2
/usr/lib64/libfftw3l_threads.so.3
/usr/lib64/libfftw3l_threads.so.3.3.2
/usr/share/doc/fftw-libs-long-3.3.3
/usr/share/doc/fftw-libs-long-3.3.3/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/fftw-libs-long-3.3.3/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/fftw-libs-long-3.3.3/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/fftw-libs-long-3.3.3/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/fftw-libs-long-3.3.3/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/fftw-libs-long-3.3.3/README
/usr/share/doc/fftw-libs-long-3.3.3/TODO

References

fftw-libs-long.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fftw-libs-long.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.