How To Install gmp on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gmp on CentOS 7.
What is gmp
The gmp package contains GNU MP, a library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, signed integers operations, rational numbers and floating point numbers. GNU MP is designed for speed, for both small and very large operands. GNU MP is fast because it uses fullwords as the basic arithmetic type, it uses fast algorithms, it carefully optimizes assembly code for many CPUs’ most common inner loops, and it generally emphasizes speed over simplicity/elegance in its operations. Install the gmp package if you need a fast arbitrary precision library.
We can use yum or dnf to install gmp on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gmp.
Install gmp on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install gmp using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gmp
Install gmp 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 gmp using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gmp
How To Uninstall gmp on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the gmp package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gmp
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gmp on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.