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

In this tutorial we learn how to install fftw-static.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. fftw-static.x86_64 is Static versions of the FFTW libraries

Introduction

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

What is `fftw-static.x86_64`

The fftw-static package contains the statically linkable version of the FFTW fast Fourier transform library.

We can use yum to install fftw-static.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-static.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install fftw-static.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove fftw-static.x86_64

fftw-static.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libfftw3.a
/usr/lib64/libfftw3_omp.a
/usr/lib64/libfftw3_threads.a
/usr/lib64/libfftw3f.a
/usr/lib64/libfftw3f_omp.a
/usr/lib64/libfftw3f_threads.a
/usr/lib64/libfftw3l.a
/usr/lib64/libfftw3l_omp.a
/usr/lib64/libfftw3l_threads.a

References

fftw-static.x86_64 website

Summary

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