How To Install gsl on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gsl
on CentOS 8.
What is gsl
The GNU Scientific Library (GSL) is a collection of routines for numerical analysis, written in C. gsl 2.5 1.el8 x86_64 1.0 M gsl-2.5-1.el8.src.rpm appstream The GNU Scientific Library for numerical analysis http GPLv3 and GFDL and BSD The GNU Scientific Library (GSL) is a collection of routines for numerical analysis, written in C.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install gsl
on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gsl.
Install gsl 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 gsl
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gsl
Install gsl 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 gsl
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gsl
How To Uninstall gsl on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the gsl
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gsl
gsl Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/gsl-histogram
/usr/bin/gsl-randist
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/10
/usr/lib/.build-id/10/5ffe4211b55075add03e4205d9123867172f3f
/usr/lib/.build-id/29
/usr/lib/.build-id/29/d80a14570d27a1171a528a7b35f734bfb58a99
/usr/lib/.build-id/8f
/usr/lib/.build-id/8f/9d1facd9c1ae473489ff5cf0cc0de224876baa
/usr/lib/.build-id/9d
/usr/lib/.build-id/9d/fbc984a1f2e2c29c2305fa33c2f9daa64a71a7
/usr/lib/libgsl.so.23
/usr/lib/libgsl.so.23.1.0
/usr/lib/libgslcblas.so.0
/usr/lib/libgslcblas.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/gsl
/usr/share/doc/gsl/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/gsl/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/gsl/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/gsl/README
/usr/share/doc/gsl/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/gsl/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/gsl
/usr/share/licenses/gsl/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/gsl-histogram.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gsl-randist.1.gz
/usr/bin/gsl-histogram
/usr/bin/gsl-randist
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/47
/usr/lib/.build-id/47/45ba2ba7efcce7c2f11ec36fe4b9c00978c1c0
/usr/lib/.build-id/82
/usr/lib/.build-id/82/dfc1f776e7eecd2bc911fd8474d5d7ec3bec42
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1/bfc768d18676dc2aa44d23495f88c7a84d32b4
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec/21859fc4bdbdd71f5a12ce62f64030a1201b6c
/usr/lib64/libgsl.so.23
/usr/lib64/libgsl.so.23.1.0
/usr/lib64/libgslcblas.so.0
/usr/lib64/libgslcblas.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/gsl
/usr/share/doc/gsl/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/gsl/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/gsl/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/gsl/README
/usr/share/doc/gsl/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/gsl/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/gsl
/usr/share/licenses/gsl/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/gsl-histogram.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gsl-randist.1.gz
References
- [gsl website](http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/ http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/)
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gsl
on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.