How To Install boost-math.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install boost-math.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. boost-math.x86_64 is Math functions for boost TR1 library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install boost-math.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `boost-math.x86_64`

Run-Time support for C99 and C++ TR1 C-style Functions from math portion of Boost.TR1.

We can use yum to install boost-math.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install boost-math.x86_64.

Install boost-math.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install boost-math.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install boost-math.x86_64

How To Uninstall boost-math.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the boost-math.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove boost-math.x86_64

boost-math.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libboost_math_c99-mt.so.1.53.0
/usr/lib64/libboost_math_c99.so.1.53.0
/usr/lib64/libboost_math_c99f-mt.so.1.53.0
/usr/lib64/libboost_math_c99f.so.1.53.0
/usr/lib64/libboost_math_c99l-mt.so.1.53.0
/usr/lib64/libboost_math_c99l.so.1.53.0
/usr/lib64/libboost_math_tr1-mt.so.1.53.0
/usr/lib64/libboost_math_tr1.so.1.53.0
/usr/lib64/libboost_math_tr1f-mt.so.1.53.0
/usr/lib64/libboost_math_tr1f.so.1.53.0
/usr/lib64/libboost_math_tr1l-mt.so.1.53.0
/usr/lib64/libboost_math_tr1l.so.1.53.0
/usr/share/doc/boost-math-1.53.0
/usr/share/doc/boost-math-1.53.0/LICENSE_1_0.txt

References

boost-math.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install boost-math.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.