How To Install boost169-openmpi on CentOS 8

boost169-openmpi is Run-time component of Boost.MPI library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install boost169-openmpi on CentOS 8.

What is boost169-openmpi

Run-time support for Boost.MPI-OpenMPI, a library providing a clean C++ API over the OpenMPI implementation of MPI.

We can use yum or dnf to install boost169-openmpi on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install boost169-openmpi.

Install boost169-openmpi 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 boost169-openmpi using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install boost169-openmpi

Install boost169-openmpi 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 boost169-openmpi using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install boost169-openmpi

How To Uninstall boost169-openmpi on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the boost169-openmpi package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove boost169-openmpi

boost169-openmpi Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/44
/usr/lib/.build-id/44/548139725f8a5a6d89743999ee55a4d7e2e53a
/usr/lib/.build-id/62
/usr/lib/.build-id/62/1c528a8057b47dee18ed9ec195a44df042a2d4
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7/d9e6ffbeb99300470a3adc2c5c72dd6fea3c37
/usr/lib64/openmpi/lib/libboost_mpi.so.1.69.0
/usr/lib64/openmpi/lib/libboost_mpi_python27.so.1.69.0
/usr/lib64/openmpi/lib/libboost_mpi_python36.so.1.69.0
/usr/share/licenses/boost169-openmpi
/usr/share/licenses/boost169-openmpi/LICENSE_1_0.txt

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install boost169-openmpi on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.