How To Install exciting-openmpi on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install exciting-openmpi
on CentOS 7.
What is exciting-openmpi
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 openmpi version.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install exciting-openmpi
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install exciting-openmpi.
Install exciting-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 exciting-openmpi
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install exciting-openmpi
Install exciting-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 exciting-openmpi
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install exciting-openmpi
How To Uninstall exciting-openmpi on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the exciting-openmpi
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove exciting-openmpi
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install exciting-openmpi
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.