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lapack


Information about the package, lapack, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The lapack package is designed for, Numerical linear algebra package libraries.


Package Name:

lapack

Summary:

Numerical linear algebra package libraries

Description:

LAPACK (Linear Algebra PACKage) is a standard library for numerical linear algebra. LAPACK provides routines for solving systems of simultaneous linear equations, least-squares solutions of linear systems of equations, eigenvalue problems, and singular value problems. Associated matrix factorizations (LU, Cholesky, QR, SVD, Schur, and generalized Schur) and related computations (i.e., reordering of Schur factorizations and estimating condition numbers) are also included. LAPACK can handle dense and banded matrices, but not general sparse matrices. Similar functionality is provided for real and complex matrices in both single and double precision. LAPACK is coded in Fortran77 and built with gcc.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

3.2.1

Release:

5.el6

Size:

4.3 M

Repository:

base

From Repository:

Licence:

BSD



Handy Yum Commands for lapack


Control the lapack package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install lapack

This command will install lapack on the server.

yum remove lapack

This command will un-install lapack on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove lapack, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove lapack

This command will un-install lapack on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove lapack when using the -y flag.

yum update lapack

This command will update lapack to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove lapack, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update lapack

This command will update lapack to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove lapack when using the -y flag.

yum info lapack

This command will show you core information about the lapack package.

yum deplist lapack

This command will show you the dependencies for lapack. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.

yum check-update lapack

This command will check if there is an update waiting on lapack. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.