How To Install blas64 on CentOS 8

blas64 is The Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms library (64bit INTEGER)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install blas64 on CentOS 8.

What is `blas64`

BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) is a standard library which provides a number of basic algorithms for numerical algebra. This build has 64bit INTEGER support.

We can use yum or dnf to install blas64 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install blas64.

Install blas64 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 blas64 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install blas64

Install blas64 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 blas64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install blas64

How To Uninstall blas64 on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the blas64 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove blas64

blas64 Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/33
/usr/lib/.build-id/33/234f87619d59b08d0facf1c5e1eef1d2e5f870
/usr/lib/.build-id/bd
/usr/lib/.build-id/bd/54c0569a7953c13efe4a57da48ed7864aca67c
/usr/lib64/libblas64_.so.3
/usr/lib64/libblas64_.so.3.8
/usr/lib64/libblas64_.so.3.8.0
/usr/lib64/libcblas64_.so.3
/usr/lib64/libcblas64_.so.3.8
/usr/lib64/libcblas64_.so.3.8.0
/usr/share/doc/blas64
/usr/share/doc/blas64/LICENSE

References

blas64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install blas64 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.