How To Install gmp on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install gmp on Rocky Linux 8. gmp is A GNU arbitrary precision library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gmp on Rocky Linux 8.

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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gmp.

Install gmp on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install gmp

Install gmp on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install gmp

How To Uninstall gmp on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove gmp

gmp Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b0
/usr/lib/.build-id/b0/ffcdca1ff0576246554e01827b82e5a0b58570
/usr/lib/fipscheck/libgmp.so.10.3.2.hmac
/usr/lib/fipscheck/libgmp.so.10.hmac
/usr/lib/libgmp.so.10
/usr/lib/libgmp.so.10.3.2
/usr/share/doc/gmp
/usr/share/doc/gmp/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/gmp/README
/usr/share/licenses/gmp
/usr/share/licenses/gmp/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/gmp/COPYING.LESSERv3
/usr/share/licenses/gmp/COPYINGv2
/usr/share/licenses/gmp/COPYINGv3
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6/7083ac18a2003adce45e6f27339a7e3aa973b1
/usr/lib64/fipscheck/libgmp.so.10.3.2.hmac
/usr/lib64/fipscheck/libgmp.so.10.hmac
/usr/lib64/libgmp.so.10
/usr/lib64/libgmp.so.10.3.2
/usr/share/doc/gmp
/usr/share/doc/gmp/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/gmp/README
/usr/share/licenses/gmp
/usr/share/licenses/gmp/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/gmp/COPYING.LESSERv3
/usr/share/licenses/gmp/COPYINGv2
/usr/share/licenses/gmp/COPYINGv3

References

gmp website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gmp on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.