How To Install numpy on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install numpy
on CentOS 7.
What is numpy
NumPy is a general-purpose array-processing package designed to efficiently manipulate large multi-dimensional arrays of arbitrary records without sacrificing too much speed for small multi-dimensional arrays. NumPy is built on the Numeric code base and adds features introduced by numarray as well as an extended C-API and the ability to create arrays of arbitrary type. There are also basic facilities for discrete fourier transform, basic linear algebra and random number generation. Also included in this package is a version of f2py that works properly with NumPy.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install numpy
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install numpy.
Install numpy on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install numpy
using yum
by running the following command:
Install numpy 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 numpy
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall numpy on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the numpy
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install numpy
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.