How To Install kokkos-devel on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kokkos-devel on AlmaLinux 8.
What is kokkos-devel
Kokkos Core implements a programming model in C++ for writing performance portable applications targeting all major HPC platforms. For that purpose it provides abstractions for both parallel execution of code and data management. Kokkos is designed to target complex node architectures with N-level memory hierarchies and multiple types of execution resources. It currently can use OpenMP, Pthreads and CUDA as backend programming models. This package contains the development files of kokkos.
We can use yum or dnf to install kokkos-devel on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install kokkos-devel.
Install kokkos-devel on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install kokkos-devel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install kokkos-devel
Install kokkos-devel on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install kokkos-devel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install kokkos-devel
How To Uninstall kokkos-devel on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the kokkos-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove kokkos-devel
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kokkos-devel on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.
