How To Install petsc64 on CentOS 8

petsc64 is Portable Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation (64bit INTEGER)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install petsc64 on CentOS 8.

What is `petsc64`

PETSc, pronounced PET-see (the S is silent), is a suite of data structures and routines for the scalable (parallel) solution of scientific applications modeled by partial differential equations (64bit INTEGER).

We can use yum or dnf to install petsc64 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install petsc64.

Install petsc64 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 petsc64 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install petsc64

Install petsc64 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 petsc64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install petsc64

How To Uninstall petsc64 on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the petsc64 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove petsc64

petsc64 Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/85
/usr/lib/.build-id/85/9ee70dda6f7c1c7016d3cf015ae5292ae4a0a5
/usr/lib64/libpetsc64.so.3.11
/usr/lib64/libpetsc64.so.3.11.3
/usr/share/licenses/petsc64
/usr/share/licenses/petsc64/LICENSE

References

petsc64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install petsc64 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.