Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install blas64 on CentOS 8.
What is blas64
BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) is a standard library which provides a number of basic algorithms for numerical algebra. This build has 64bit INTEGER support.
We can use yum or dnf to install blas64 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install blas64.
Install blas64 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 blas64 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install blas64
Install blas64 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 blas64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install blas64
How To Uninstall blas64 on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the blas64 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove blas64
blas64 Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/33
/usr/lib/.build-id/33/234f87619d59b08d0facf1c5e1eef1d2e5f870
/usr/lib/.build-id/bd
/usr/lib/.build-id/bd/54c0569a7953c13efe4a57da48ed7864aca67c
/usr/lib64/libblas64_.so.3
/usr/lib64/libblas64_.so.3.8
/usr/lib64/libblas64_.so.3.8.0
/usr/lib64/libcblas64_.so.3
/usr/lib64/libcblas64_.so.3.8
/usr/lib64/libcblas64_.so.3.8.0
/usr/share/doc/blas64
/usr/share/doc/blas64/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install blas64 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
