How To Install paraview-mpich on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install paraview-mpich on CentOS 7.
What is paraview-mpich
This package contains copies of the ParaView server binaries compiled with mpich. These are named pvserver_mpich, pvbatch_mpich, etc. You will need to load the mpich-x86_64 module to setup your path properly.
We can use yum or dnf to install paraview-mpich on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install paraview-mpich.
Install paraview-mpich on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install paraview-mpich using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install paraview-mpich
Install paraview-mpich 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 paraview-mpich using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install paraview-mpich
How To Uninstall paraview-mpich on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the paraview-mpich package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove paraview-mpich
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install paraview-mpich on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
