How To Install hypre on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install hypre on Rocky Linux 8. hypre is High performance matrix preconditioners

Introduction

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

What is hypre

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

We can use yum or dnf to install hypre on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install hypre.

Install hypre 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 hypre using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install hypre

Install hypre 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 hypre using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install hypre

How To Uninstall hypre on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove hypre

hypre Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/94
/usr/lib/.build-id/94/89949a9d4ea854aec32cf507c4c67b55f74e26
/usr/lib64/libHYPRE.so.2
/usr/lib64/libHYPRE.so.2.1
/usr/share/doc/hypre
/usr/share/doc/hypre/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/hypre/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/hypre
/usr/share/licenses/hypre/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/licenses/hypre/LICENSE-APACHE
/usr/share/licenses/hypre/LICENSE-MIT

References

Summary

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