How To Install matio on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install matio on Rocky Linux 8. matio is Library for reading/writing Matlab MAT files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install matio on Rocky Linux 8.

What is matio

matio is an open-source library for reading/writing Matlab MAT files. This library is designed for use by programs/libraries that do not have access or do not want to rely on Matlab’s libmat shared library.

We can use yum or dnf to install matio on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install matio.

Install matio on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install matio using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install matio

Install matio on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install matio using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install matio

How To Uninstall matio on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the matio package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove matio

matio Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/matdump
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a4
/usr/lib/.build-id/a4/3f11a4a811fd80e1194a7efdf860a4422e3566
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7/b8e67fe31e690d791739ba52dced59952f84d1
/usr/lib64/libmatio.so.9
/usr/lib64/libmatio.so.9.1.2
/usr/share/doc/matio
/usr/share/doc/matio/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/matio/README
/usr/share/licenses/matio
/usr/share/licenses/matio/COPYING

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install matio on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.