How To Install lammps-openmpi-devel on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install lammps-openmpi-devel on CentOS 7. lammps-openmpi-devel is Development libraries for Open MPI LAMMPS

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lammps-openmpi-devel on CentOS 7.

What is lammps-openmpi-devel

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. This package contains development libraries for Open MPI LAMMPS.

We can use yum or dnf to install lammps-openmpi-devel on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lammps-openmpi-devel.

Install lammps-openmpi-devel on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install lammps-openmpi-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lammps-openmpi-devel

Install lammps-openmpi-devel 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.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install lammps-openmpi-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lammps-openmpi-devel

How To Uninstall lammps-openmpi-devel on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the lammps-openmpi-devel package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove lammps-openmpi-devel

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install lammps-openmpi-devel on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.