Information about the package, MUMPS, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The MUMPS package is designed for, A MUltifrontal Massively Parallel sparse direct Solver.
Package Name:
MUMPS
Summary:
A MUltifrontal Massively Parallel sparse direct Solver
Description:
MUMPS implements a direct solver for large sparse linear systems, with a particular focus on symmetric positive definite matrices. It can operate on distributed matrices e.g. over a cluster. It has Fortran and C interfaces, and can interface with ordering tools such as Scotch.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
5.0.2
Release:
4.el6
Size:
2.6 M
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
CeCILL-C
Control the MUMPS package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install MUMPS
This command will install MUMPS on the server.
yum remove MUMPS
This command will un-install MUMPS on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove MUMPS, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove MUMPS
This command will un-install MUMPS 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 MUMPS when using the -y flag.
yum update MUMPS
This command will update MUMPS to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove MUMPS, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update MUMPS
This command will update MUMPS 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 MUMPS when using the -y flag.
yum info MUMPS
This command will show you core information about the MUMPS package.
yum deplist MUMPS
This command will show you the dependencies for MUMPS. 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 MUMPS
This command will check if there is an update waiting on MUMPS. 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.