How To Install mpir on CentOS 8

mpir is Highly optimised library for bignum arithmetic

Introduction

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

What is `mpir`

MPIR is a highly optimised library for bignum arithmetic forked from the GMP bignum library. It is written in assembly language and C. It is community maintained via the GitHub repositories of William Hart (Linux/OSX) and Brian Gladman (Windows). There are currently no curators for other platforms. MPIR is assembly optimised for various x86-64 CPUs. It is designed to be threadsafe.

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

Install mpir 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 mpir using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mpir

Install mpir 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 mpir using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mpir

How To Uninstall mpir on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove mpir

mpir Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e/cd57344bf6b910c091a0bbf52f117860b786c4
/usr/lib64/libmpir.so.23
/usr/lib64/libmpir.so.23.0.3
/usr/share/licenses/mpir
/usr/share/licenses/mpir/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/mpir/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/licenses/mpir/PACKAGE-LICENSING

References

mpir website

Summary

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