How To Install blacs-mpich-devel on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install blacs-mpich-devel on Rocky Linux 8. blacs-mpich-devel is Development libraries for blacs (mpich)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install blacs-mpich-devel on Rocky Linux 8.

What is blacs-mpich-devel

This package contains development libraries for blacs, compiled against mpich.

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

Install blacs-mpich-devel 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 blacs-mpich-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install blacs-mpich-devel

Install blacs-mpich-devel 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 blacs-mpich-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install blacs-mpich-devel

How To Uninstall blacs-mpich-devel on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove blacs-mpich-devel

blacs-mpich-devel Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/include/mpich-x86_64
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/22/e7d8dc632d8fdb80f8b82510bf088af2c5300a.2
/usr/lib64/mpich/lib/libmpiblacs.so

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install blacs-mpich-devel on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.