How To Install numactl on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install numactl on CentOS 7. numactl is Library for tuning for Non Uniform Memory Access machines

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install numactl on CentOS 7.

What is numactl

Simple NUMA policy support. It consists of a numactl program to run other programs with a specific NUMA policy.

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

Install numactl on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install numactl

Install numactl 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 numactl using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install numactl

How To Uninstall numactl on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove numactl

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install numactl on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.