How To Install kim-api on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kim-api
on CentOS 7.
What is kim-api
OpenKIM is an online framework for making molecular simulations reliable, reproducible, and portable. Models conforming to the KIM application programming interface work seamlessly with major simulation codes that have adopted the KIM-API standard. This package can be used to load all the files (libraries, headers, and documentation) for the KIM-API.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install kim-api
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install kim-api.
Install kim-api on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install kim-api
using yum
by running the following command:
Install kim-api 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.
After updating yum database, We can install kim-api
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall kim-api on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the kim-api
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kim-api
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.