How To Install libgomp.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgomp.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libgomp.x86_64 is GCC OpenMP v4.5 shared support library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgomp.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libgomp.x86_64`

This package contains GCC shared support library which is needed for OpenMP v4.5 support.

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

Install libgomp.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 libgomp.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libgomp.x86_64

How To Uninstall libgomp.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libgomp.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libgomp.x86_64

libgomp.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libgomp.so.1
/usr/lib64/libgomp.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libgomp-7.3.1
/usr/share/doc/libgomp-7.3.1/ChangeLog.bz2
/usr/share/doc/libgomp-7.3.1/ChangeLog.graphite.bz2
/usr/share/info/libgomp.info.gz

References

libgomp.x86_64 website

Summary

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