How To Install lammps on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lammps on AlmaLinux 8.
What is lammps
LAMMPS is a classical molecular dynamics code, and an acronym for Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator. LAMMPS has potentials for soft materials (biomolecules, polymers) and solid-state materials (metals, semiconductors) and coarse-grained or mesoscopic systems. It can be used to model atoms or, more generically, as a parallel particle simulator at the atomic, meso, or continuum scale. LAMMPS runs on single processors or in parallel using message-passing techniques and a spatial-decomposition of the simulation domain. The code is designed to be easy to modify or extend with new functionality.
We can use yum or dnf to install lammps on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lammps.
Install lammps 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 lammps using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install lammps
Install lammps 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 lammps using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install lammps
How To Uninstall lammps on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the lammps package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove lammps
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lammps on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.
