How To Install boost-mpich-python3 on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install boost-mpich-python3 on CentOS 8.
What is boost-mpich-python3
Python 3 support for Boost.MPI-MPICH, a library providing a clean C++ API over the MPICH implementation of MPI.
We can use yum or dnf to install boost-mpich-python3 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install boost-mpich-python3.
Install boost-mpich-python3 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 boost-mpich-python3 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install boost-mpich-python3
Install boost-mpich-python3 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 boost-mpich-python3 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install boost-mpich-python3
How To Uninstall boost-mpich-python3 on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the boost-mpich-python3 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove boost-mpich-python3
boost-mpich-python3 Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b2/2e727a608c1b7b0ee530921192c5e4694fd542
/usr/lib/.build-id/f4/ac031791dab0aac2a315030840bf4de3fe4887
/usr/lib64/mpich/lib/libboost_mpi_python3.so.1.66.0
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/mpich/boost
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/mpich/boost/__init__.py
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/mpich/boost/__pycache__
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/mpich/boost/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/mpich/boost/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/mpich/boost/mpi.so
/usr/share/licenses/boost-mpich-python3
/usr/share/licenses/boost-mpich-python3/LICENSE_1_0.txt
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install boost-mpich-python3 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.