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