How To Install elpa-openmpi on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-openmpi on CentOS 7. elpa-openmpi is Fast library for parallel solution of eigenvalue problems (OpenMPI

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-openmpi on CentOS 7.

What is elpa-openmpi

ELPA is a Fortran-based high-performance computational library for the (massively) parallel solution of symmetric or Hermitian, standard or generalized eigenvalue problems. This package contains ELPA built against OpenMPI.

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

Install elpa-openmpi on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install elpa-openmpi

Install elpa-openmpi 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 elpa-openmpi using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install elpa-openmpi

How To Uninstall elpa-openmpi on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the elpa-openmpi package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove elpa-openmpi

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Summary

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