How To Install arpack-devel on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install arpack-devel on CentOS 7. arpack-devel is Files needed for developing arpack based applications

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install arpack-devel on CentOS 7.

What is arpack-devel

ARPACK is a collection of Fortran 77 subroutines designed to solve large scale eigenvalue problems. This package contains the so library links used for building arpack based applications.

We can use yum or dnf to install arpack-devel on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install arpack-devel.

Install arpack-devel on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install arpack-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install arpack-devel

Install arpack-devel on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install arpack-devel

How To Uninstall arpack-devel on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the arpack-devel package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove arpack-devel

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install arpack-devel on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.