How To Install sleef-gnuabi on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install sleef-gnuabi on Rocky Linux 8. sleef-gnuabi is GNUABI version of sleef

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sleef-gnuabi on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `sleef-gnuabi`

The GNUABI version of the library (libsleefgnuabi.so) is built for x86 and aarch64 architectures. This library provides an API compatible with libmvec in glibc, and the API conforms to the x86 vector ABI, AArch64 vector ABI and Power Vector ABI.

We can use yum or dnf to install sleef-gnuabi on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sleef-gnuabi.

Install sleef-gnuabi on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install sleef-gnuabi using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sleef-gnuabi

Install sleef-gnuabi on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install sleef-gnuabi

How To Uninstall sleef-gnuabi on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the sleef-gnuabi package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove sleef-gnuabi

sleef-gnuabi Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1/b0726774e91dadca061a91308ac0a8c5ddde7e
/usr/lib64/libsleefgnuabi.so.3
/usr/lib64/libsleefgnuabi.so.3.5
/usr/share/licenses/sleef-gnuabi
/usr/share/licenses/sleef-gnuabi/LICENSE.txt

References

sleef-gnuabi website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install sleef-gnuabi on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.