How To Install fftw-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install fftw-libs.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. fftw-libs.x86_64 is FFTW run-time library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fftw-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `fftw-libs.x86_64`

This is a dummy package package, pulling in the individual FFTW run-time libraries.

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

Install fftw-libs.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 fftw-libs.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fftw-libs.x86_64

How To Uninstall fftw-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the fftw-libs.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove fftw-libs.x86_64

fftw-libs.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

References

fftw-libs.x86_64 website

Summary

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