How To Install lammps on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lammps on CentOS 8.
What is lammps
LAMMPS is a classical molecular dynamics code, and an acronym for Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator. LAMMPS has potentials for soft materials (biomolecules, polymers) and solid-state materials (metals, semiconductors) and coarse-grained or mesoscopic systems. It can be used to model atoms or, more generically, as a parallel particle simulator at the atomic, meso, or continuum scale. LAMMPS runs on single processors or in parallel using message-passing techniques and a spatial-decomposition of the simulation domain. The code is designed to be easy to modify or extend with new functionality.
We can use yum or dnf to install lammps on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lammps.
Install lammps 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 lammps using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install lammps
Install lammps 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 lammps using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install lammps
How To Uninstall lammps on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the lammps package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove lammps
lammps Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/binary2txt
/usr/bin/lmp
/usr/bin/msi2lmp
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/23
/usr/lib/.build-id/23/2f08b117ee54cafdf3a1810cf86b0197e3ed23
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e/a53ecb4be6a4d4ecc75568fc4734f0115c2290
/usr/lib/.build-id/44
/usr/lib/.build-id/44/9eca13646add71af4666dfb54f235b3ebeddbd
/usr/lib/.build-id/c0
/usr/lib/.build-id/c0/6469a9ed4c1b809237fab4f957204501dcad36
/usr/lib64/liblammps.so.0
/usr/share/doc/lammps
/usr/share/doc/lammps/README
/usr/share/licenses/lammps
/usr/share/licenses/lammps/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/lmp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/msi2lmp.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lammps on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
