How To Install blacs-common on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install blacs-common on CentOS 7.
What is blacs-common
The BLACS (Basic Linear Algebra Communication Subprograms) project is an ongoing investigation whose purpose is to create a linear algebra oriented message passing interface that may be implemented efficiently and uniformly across a large range of distributed memory platforms. The length of time required to implement efficient distributed memory algorithms makes it impractical to rewrite programs for every new parallel machine. The BLACS exist in order to make linear algebra applications both easier to program and more portable. This file contains common files which are not specific to any MPI implementation.
We can use yum or dnf to install blacs-common on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install blacs-common.
Install blacs-common on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install blacs-common using yum by running the following command:
Install blacs-common 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.
After updating yum database, We can install blacs-common using dnf by running the following command:
How To Uninstall blacs-common on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the blacs-common package we can use the following command:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install blacs-common on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.