How To Install sleef-gnuabi on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sleef-gnuabi on CentOS 8.
What is sleef-gnuabi
The GNUABI version of the library (libsleefgnuabi.so) is built for x86 and aarch64 architectures. This library provides an API compatible with libmvec in glibc, and the API conforms to the x86 vector ABI, AArch64 vector ABI and Power Vector ABI.
We can use yum or dnf to install sleef-gnuabi on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sleef-gnuabi.
Install sleef-gnuabi 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 sleef-gnuabi using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install sleef-gnuabi
Install sleef-gnuabi 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 sleef-gnuabi using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install sleef-gnuabi
How To Uninstall sleef-gnuabi on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the sleef-gnuabi package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove sleef-gnuabi
sleef-gnuabi Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1/b0726774e91dadca061a91308ac0a8c5ddde7e
/usr/lib64/libsleefgnuabi.so.3
/usr/lib64/libsleefgnuabi.so.3.5
/usr/share/licenses/sleef-gnuabi
/usr/share/licenses/sleef-gnuabi/LICENSE.txt
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sleef-gnuabi on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.