How To Install lammps on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lammps
on CentOS 7.
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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lammps.
Install lammps on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install lammps
using yum
by running the following command:
Install lammps 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 lammps
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall lammps on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the lammps
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lammps
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.