How To Install blas-devel on CentOS 8

blas-devel is BLAS development libraries BLAS development libraries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install blas-devel on CentOS 8.

What is blas-devel

BLAS development libraries (shared). blas-devel 3.8.0 8.el8 x86_64 26 k lapack-3.8.0-8.el8.src.rpm powertools BLAS development libraries http BSD BLAS development libraries (shared).

We can use yum or dnf to install blas-devel on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install blas-devel.

Install blas-devel on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install blas-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install blas-devel

Install blas-devel on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install blas-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install blas-devel

How To Uninstall blas-devel on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the blas-devel package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove blas-devel

blas-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/include/cblas
/usr/include/cblas/cblas.h
/usr/include/cblas/cblas_f77.h
/usr/include/cblas/cblas_mangling.h
/usr/include/cblas/cblas_test.h
/usr/lib/libblas.so
/usr/lib/libcblas.so
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/blas.pc
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/cblas.pc
/usr/include/cblas
/usr/include/cblas/cblas.h
/usr/include/cblas/cblas_f77.h
/usr/include/cblas/cblas_mangling.h
/usr/include/cblas/cblas_test.h
/usr/lib64/libblas.so
/usr/lib64/libcblas.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/blas.pc
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/cblas.pc

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install blas-devel on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.