How To Install python36-lammps on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python36-lammps on CentOS 7.
What is python36-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 python36-lammps on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install python36-lammps.
Install python36-lammps on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install python36-lammps using yum by running the following command:
Install python36-lammps 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.
After updating yum database, We can install python36-lammps using dnf by running the following command:
How To Uninstall python36-lammps on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the python36-lammps package we can use the following command:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python36-lammps on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.