How To Install petsc64 on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install petsc64 on CentOS 7. petsc64 is Portable Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation (64bit

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install petsc64 on CentOS 7.

What is petsc64

PETSc, pronounced PET-see (the S is silent), is a suite of data structures and routines for the scalable (parallel) solution of scientific applications modeled by partial differential equations (64bit INTEGER).

We can use yum or dnf to install petsc64 on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install petsc64.

Install petsc64 on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install petsc64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install petsc64

Install petsc64 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 petsc64 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install petsc64

How To Uninstall petsc64 on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the petsc64 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove petsc64

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install petsc64 on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.