How To Install cmpfit on Fedora 34

cmpfit is A MINPACK-1 Least Squares Fitting Library in C A MINPACK-1 Least Squares Fitting Library in C

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cmpfit on Fedora 34.

What is `cmpfit`

CMPFIT uses the Levenberg-Marquardt technique to solve the least-squares problem. In its typical use, CMPFIT will be used to fit a user-supplied function (the “model”) to user-supplied data points (the “data”) by adjusting a set of parameters. CMPFIT is based upon MINPACK-1 (LMDIF.F) by More’ and collaborators. cmpfit 1.4 3.fc34 x86_64 32 k cmpfit-1.4-3.fc34.src.rpm fedora A MINPACK-1 Least Squares Fitting Library in C http BSD CMPFIT uses the Levenberg-Marquardt technique to solve the least-squares problem. In its typical use, CMPFIT will be used to fit a user-supplied function (the “model”) to user-supplied data points (the “data”) by adjusting a set of parameters. CMPFIT is based upon MINPACK-1 (LMDIF.F) by More’ and collaborators.

We can use yum or dnf to install cmpfit on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cmpfit.

Install cmpfit on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install cmpfit using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cmpfit

Install cmpfit on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install cmpfit using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cmpfit

How To Uninstall cmpfit on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove cmpfit

cmpfit Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/28
/usr/lib/.build-id/28/0431204916e82b89f2eee1932d0897900a3e31
/usr/lib64/libmpfit.so.0
/usr/lib64/libmpfit.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/cmpfit
/usr/share/doc/cmpfit/DISCLAIMER
/usr/share/doc/cmpfit/README
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/87
/usr/lib/.build-id/87/0832d098fe96a522bd36f1f48975ce5c55061b
/usr/lib/libmpfit.so.0
/usr/lib/libmpfit.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/cmpfit
/usr/share/doc/cmpfit/DISCLAIMER
/usr/share/doc/cmpfit/README

References

[cmpfit website](http://cow.physics.wisc.edu/~craigm/idl/cmpfit.html http://cow.physics.wisc.edu/~craigm/idl/cmpfit.html)

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cmpfit on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.