How To Install atlas-corei2 on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install atlas-corei2 on Rocky Linux 8. atlas-corei2 is ATLAS libraries for Corei2 (Ivy/Sandy bridge) CPUs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install atlas-corei2 on Rocky Linux 8.

What is atlas-corei2

This package contains the ATLAS (Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software) libraries compiled with optimizations for the Corei2 (Ivy/Sandy bridge) CPUs. The base ATLAS builds for the x86_64 architecture are made for the hammer64 CPUs.

We can use yum or dnf to install atlas-corei2 on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install atlas-corei2.

Install atlas-corei2 on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install atlas-corei2 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install atlas-corei2

Install atlas-corei2 on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install atlas-corei2 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install atlas-corei2

How To Uninstall atlas-corei2 on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the atlas-corei2 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove atlas-corei2

atlas-corei2 Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/ld.so.conf.d/atlas-x86_64-corei2.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b4
/usr/lib/.build-id/b4/427b559e3241d2ecc75bc025e29d5b89bfce1b
/usr/lib/.build-id/df
/usr/lib/.build-id/df/4f9eec1d1d240b51089b8ed5a7f410358c73c6
/usr/lib64/atlas-corei2
/usr/lib64/atlas-corei2/libsatlas.so.3
/usr/lib64/atlas-corei2/libsatlas.so.3.10
/usr/lib64/atlas-corei2/libtatlas.so.3
/usr/lib64/atlas-corei2/libtatlas.so.3.10
/usr/share/doc/atlas-corei2
/usr/share/doc/atlas-corei2/README.dist

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install atlas-corei2 on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.