Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install blis on CentOS 8.
What is blis
BLIS is a portable software framework for instantiating high-performance BLAS-like dense linear algebra libraries. The framework was designed to isolate essential kernels of computation that, when optimized, immediately enable optimized implementations of most of its commonly used and computationally intensive operations. While BLIS exports a new BLAS-like API, it also includes a BLAS compatibility layer which gives application developers access to BLIS implementations via traditional BLAS routine calls. This packaging contains automatically-dispatched architecture-optimized kernels for some targets, notably recent x86_64. This is the serial version.
We can use yum or dnf to install blis on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install blis.
Install blis on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install blis using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install blis
Install blis on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install blis using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install blis
How To Uninstall blis on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the blis package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove blis
blis Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/46
/usr/lib/.build-id/46/a64b9117e164eead313a36f606b4fc0a544498
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9/770d8b66fae49611dc69ee8e178ad96719614c
/usr/lib64/blisblas
/usr/lib64/blisblas/libblas.so
/usr/lib64/blisblas/libblas.so.3
/usr/lib64/libblis.so.2
/usr/lib64/libblis.so.2.1.0
/usr/share/doc/blis
/usr/share/doc/blis/CHANGELOG.gz
/usr/share/doc/blis/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/blis/README.Fedora
/usr/share/doc/blis/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/blis
/usr/share/licenses/blis/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install blis on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
