How To Install exciting-common on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install exciting-common on CentOS 7.
What is exciting-common
exciting is a full-potential all-electron density-functional-theory (DFT) package implementing the families of linearized augmented planewave (LAPW) methods. It can be applied to all kinds of materials, irrespective of the atomic species involved, and also allows for exploring the physics of core electrons. A particular focus are excited states within many-body perturbation theory (MBPT). This package contains the common binaries.
We can use yum or dnf to install exciting-common on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install exciting-common.
Install exciting-common on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install exciting-common using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install exciting-common
Install exciting-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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install exciting-common using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install exciting-common
How To Uninstall exciting-common on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the exciting-common package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove exciting-common
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install exciting-common on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
