How To Install openblas on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install openblas on Rocky Linux 8. openblas is An optimized BLAS library based on GotoBLAS2

Introduction

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

What is `openblas`

OpenBLAS is an optimized BLAS library based on GotoBLAS2 1.13 BSD version. The project is supported by the Lab of Parallel Software and Computational Science, ISCAS. http

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

Install openblas 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 openblas using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install openblas

Install openblas 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 openblas using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install openblas

How To Uninstall openblas on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove openblas

openblas Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/77
/usr/lib/.build-id/77/1086867f2f2767f6b49896d13ff911081c6402
/usr/lib64/libopenblas-r0.3.12.so
/usr/lib64/libopenblas.so.0
/usr/share/doc/openblas
/usr/share/doc/openblas/Changelog.txt
/usr/share/doc/openblas/GotoBLAS_00License.txt
/usr/share/doc/openblas/GotoBLAS_01Readme.txt
/usr/share/doc/openblas/GotoBLAS_02QuickInstall.txt
/usr/share/doc/openblas/GotoBLAS_03FAQ.txt
/usr/share/doc/openblas/GotoBLAS_04FAQ.txt
/usr/share/doc/openblas/GotoBLAS_05LargePage.txt
/usr/share/doc/openblas/GotoBLAS_06WeirdPerformance.txt
/usr/share/doc/openblas/LICENSE
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc/61e1ff5f9a38f170df7bbcc2567d3320091f73
/usr/lib/libopenblas-r0.3.12.so
/usr/lib/libopenblas.so.0
/usr/share/doc/openblas
/usr/share/doc/openblas/Changelog.txt
/usr/share/doc/openblas/GotoBLAS_00License.txt
/usr/share/doc/openblas/GotoBLAS_01Readme.txt
/usr/share/doc/openblas/GotoBLAS_02QuickInstall.txt
/usr/share/doc/openblas/GotoBLAS_03FAQ.txt
/usr/share/doc/openblas/GotoBLAS_04FAQ.txt
/usr/share/doc/openblas/GotoBLAS_05LargePage.txt
/usr/share/doc/openblas/GotoBLAS_06WeirdPerformance.txt
/usr/share/doc/openblas/LICENSE

References

openblas website

Summary

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