How To Install petsc on Fedora 34

petsc is Portable Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation Portable Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation

Introduction

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

What is `petsc`

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. petsc 3.14.4 1.fc34 x86_64 5.4 M petsc-3.14.4-1.fc34.src.rpm fedora Portable Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation https BSD 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.

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

Install petsc 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 petsc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install petsc

Install petsc 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 petsc using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install petsc

How To Uninstall petsc on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove petsc

petsc Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/92
/usr/lib/.build-id/92/7ac4a74fbdd7d920b67e493480144dedc60778
/usr/lib64/libpetsc.so.3.14
/usr/lib64/libpetsc.so.3.14.4
/usr/share/licenses/petsc
/usr/share/licenses/petsc/LICENSE
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb/8924f5c507043b0b48791db72ccc1629ec0b50
/usr/lib/libpetsc.so.3.14
/usr/lib/libpetsc.so.3.14.4
/usr/share/licenses/petsc
/usr/share/licenses/petsc/LICENSE

References

[petsc website](https://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc https://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc)

Summary

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