How To Install python2-openmpi.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install python2-openmpi.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. python2-openmpi.x86_64 is OpenMPI support for Python 2

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python2-openmpi.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `python2-openmpi.x86_64`

OpenMPI support for Python 2.

We can use yum to install python2-openmpi.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install python2-openmpi.x86_64.

Install python2-openmpi.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 python2-openmpi.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install python2-openmpi.x86_64

How To Uninstall python2-openmpi.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the python2-openmpi.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove python2-openmpi.x86_64

python2-openmpi.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/openmpi
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/openmpi.pth

References

python2-openmpi.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python2-openmpi.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.