How To Install cube on AlmaLinux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install cube in AlmaLinux 8. cube is CUBE Uniform Behavioral Encoding generic presentation component

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cube on AlmaLinux 8.

What is cube

CUBE (CUBE Uniform Behavioral Encoding) is a generic presentation component suitable for displaying a wide variety of performance metrics for parallel programs including MPI and OpenMP applications. CUBE allows interactive exploration of a multidimensional performance space in a scalable fashion. Scalability is achieved in two ways dimensions and aggregation across different dimensions. All performance metrics are uniformly accommodated in the same display and thus provide the ability to easily compare the effects of different kinds of performance behavior.

We can use yum or dnf to install cube on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cube.

Install cube on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install cube

Install cube on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install cube

How To Uninstall cube on AlmaLinux 8

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

sudo dnf remove cube

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cube on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.