How To Install gsl.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install gsl.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. gsl.i686 is The GNU Scientific Library for numerical analysis

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gsl.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `gsl.i686`

The GNU Scientific Library (GSL) is a collection of routines for numerical analysis, written in C.

We can use yum to install gsl.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gsl.i686.

Install gsl.i686 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 gsl.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gsl.i686

How To Uninstall gsl.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the gsl.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove gsl.i686

gsl.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/gsl-histogram
/usr/bin/gsl-randist
/usr/lib/libgsl.so.0
/usr/lib/libgsl.so.0.16.0
/usr/lib/libgslcblas.so.0
/usr/lib/libgslcblas.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/gsl-1.15
/usr/share/doc/gsl-1.15/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/gsl-1.15/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/gsl-1.15/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/gsl-1.15/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/gsl-1.15/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/gsl-1.15/README
/usr/share/doc/gsl-1.15/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/gsl-1.15/TODO
/usr/share/man/man1/gsl-histogram.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gsl-randist.1.gz

References

gsl.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gsl.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.