Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install arpack-devel on CentOS 8.
What is arpack-devel
ARPACK is a collection of Fortran 77 subroutines designed to solve large scale eigenvalue problems. This package contains the so library links used for building arpack based applications.
We can use yum or dnf to install arpack-devel on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install arpack-devel.
Install arpack-devel 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 arpack-devel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install arpack-devel
Install arpack-devel 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 arpack-devel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install arpack-devel
How To Uninstall arpack-devel on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the arpack-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove arpack-devel
arpack-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/include/arpack/arpack.h
/usr/include/arpack/arpack.hpp
/usr/include/arpack/arpackdef.h
/usr/include/arpack/debug.h
/usr/include/arpack/debug_c.h
/usr/include/arpack/debug_c.hpp
/usr/include/arpack/stat.h
/usr/include/arpack/stat_c.h
/usr/include/arpack/stat_c.hpp
/usr/lib64/libarpack.so
/usr/lib64/libarpack64_.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/arpack.pc
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/arpack64_.pc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install arpack-devel on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
