How To Install rpm-mpi-hooks on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rpm-mpi-hooks on CentOS 8.
What is rpm-mpi-hooks
RPM dependency generator hooks for MPI packages. This package should be added as a BuildRequires to all mpi implementations (i.e. openmpi, mpich) as well as a Requires to the their -devel packages.
We can use yum or dnf to install rpm-mpi-hooks on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rpm-mpi-hooks.
Install rpm-mpi-hooks 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 rpm-mpi-hooks using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install rpm-mpi-hooks
Install rpm-mpi-hooks 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 rpm-mpi-hooks using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install rpm-mpi-hooks
How To Uninstall rpm-mpi-hooks on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the rpm-mpi-hooks package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove rpm-mpi-hooks
rpm-mpi-hooks Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/rpm/fileattrs/mpi.attr
/usr/lib/rpm/fileattrs/mpilibsymlink.attr
/usr/lib/rpm/mpi.prov
/usr/lib/rpm/mpi.req
/usr/share/licenses/rpm-mpi-hooks
/usr/share/licenses/rpm-mpi-hooks/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rpm-mpi-hooks on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.