How To Install ptscotch-openmpi on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ptscotch-openmpi on CentOS 7.

What is ptscotch-openmpi

Scotch is a software package for graph and mesh/hypergraph partitioning and sparse matrix ordering. This sub-package provides parallelized scotch libraries compiled with openmpi.

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

Install ptscotch-openmpi on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install ptscotch-openmpi using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ptscotch-openmpi

Install ptscotch-openmpi 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 ptscotch-openmpi using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ptscotch-openmpi

How To Uninstall ptscotch-openmpi on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the ptscotch-openmpi package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ptscotch-openmpi

References

• ptscotch-openmpi website

Summary

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