How To Install hypre-openmpi on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install hypre-openmpi on CentOS 7. hypre-openmpi is High performance matrix preconditioners - openmpi

Introduction

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

What is hypre-openmpi

Hypre is a set of matrix preconditioning libraries to aid in the solution of large systems of linear equations. This is the openmpi version.

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

Install hypre-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 hypre-openmpi using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install hypre-openmpi

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

sudo dnf -y install hypre-openmpi

How To Uninstall hypre-openmpi on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove hypre-openmpi

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Summary

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