How To Install libcilkrts.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcilkrts.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libcilkrts.x86_64 is The Cilk+ runtime library

Introduction

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

What is `libcilkrts.x86_64`

This package contains the Cilk+ runtime library.

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

Install libcilkrts.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 libcilkrts.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libcilkrts.x86_64

How To Uninstall libcilkrts.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libcilkrts.x86_64

libcilkrts.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libcilkrts.so.5
/usr/lib64/libcilkrts.so.5.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libcilkrts-7.3.1
/usr/share/doc/libcilkrts-7.3.1/ChangeLog.bz2
/usr/share/doc/libcilkrts-7.3.1/README

References

libcilkrts.x86_64 website

Summary

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