How To Install blas on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install blas on CentOS 7. blas is The Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install blas on CentOS 7.

What is blas

BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) is a standard library which provides a number of basic algorithms for numerical algebra. BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) is a standard library which provides a number of basic algorithms for numerical algebra.

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

Install blas on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install blas using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install blas

Install blas 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 blas using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install blas

How To Uninstall blas on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove blas

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Summary

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