How To Install libgfortran.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgfortran.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libgfortran.x86_64 is Fortran runtime

Introduction

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

What is `libgfortran.x86_64`

This package contains Fortran shared library which is needed to run Fortran dynamically linked programs.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libgfortran.x86_64

How To Uninstall libgfortran.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libgfortran.x86_64

libgfortran.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libgfortran.so.4
/usr/lib64/libgfortran.so.4.0.0

References

libgfortran.x86_64 website

Summary

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