How To Install python3-lammps on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-lammps
on AlmaLinux 8.
What is python3-lammps
LAMMPS is a classical molecular dynamics code, and an acronym for Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator. LAMMPS has potentials for soft materials (biomolecules, polymers) and solid-state materials (metals, semiconductors) and coarse-grained or mesoscopic systems. It can be used to model atoms or, more generically, as a parallel particle simulator at the atomic, meso, or continuum scale. LAMMPS runs on single processors or in parallel using message-passing techniques and a spatial-decomposition of the simulation domain. The code is designed to be easy to modify or extend with new functionality. This package contains LAMMPS Python interface
We can use yum
or dnf
to install python3-lammps
on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install python3-lammps.
Install python3-lammps on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install python3-lammps
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install python3-lammps
Install python3-lammps on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install python3-lammps
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install python3-lammps
How To Uninstall python3-lammps on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the python3-lammps
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove python3-lammps
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-lammps
on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.