How To Install openlibm on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install openlibm on CentOS 7. openlibm is High quality system independent, open source libm

Introduction

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

What is openlibm

OpenLIBM is an effort to have a high quality standalone LIBM library. It is meant to be used standalone in applications and programming language implementations. The OpenLIBM code derives from the FreeBSD msun implementation, which in turn derives from FDLIBM 5.3. As a result, it has a number of fixes and updates that have accumulated over the years in msun, and also optimized assembly versions of many functions.

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

Install openlibm on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install openlibm

Install openlibm 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 openlibm using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install openlibm

How To Uninstall openlibm on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove openlibm

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Summary

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