How To Install mpfr on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mpfr
on CentOS 7.
What is mpfr
The MPFR library is a C library for multiple-precision floating-point computations with “correct rounding”. The MPFR is efficient and also has a well-defined semantics. It copies the good ideas from the ANSI/IEEE-754 standard for double-precision floating-point arithmetic (53-bit mantissa). MPFR is based on the GMP multiple-precision library. The MPFR library is a C library for multiple-precision floating-point computations with “correct rounding”. The MPFR is efficient and also has a well-defined semantics. It copies the good ideas from the ANSI/IEEE-754 standard for double-precision floating-point arithmetic (53-bit mantissa). MPFR is based on the GMP multiple-precision library.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install mpfr
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mpfr.
Install mpfr on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install mpfr
using yum
by running the following command:
Install mpfr 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 mpfr
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall mpfr on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the mpfr
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mpfr
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.