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arpack


Information about the package, arpack, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The arpack package is designed for, Fortran 77 subroutines for solving large scale eigenvalue problems.


Package Name:

arpack

Summary:

Fortran 77 subroutines for solving large scale eigenvalue problems

Description:

ARPACK is a collection of Fortran 77 subroutines designed to solve large scale eigenvalue problems. The package is designed to compute a few eigenvalues and corresponding eigenvectors of a general n by n matrix A. It is most appropriate for large sparse or structured matrices A where structured means that a matrix-vector product w <- Av requires order n rather than the usual order n**2 floating point operations. This software is based upon an algorithmic variant of the Arnoldi process called the Implicitly Restarted Arnoldi Method (IRAM).

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

3.1.3

Release:

1.el6

Size:

104 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

BSD



Handy Yum Commands for arpack


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


Command

Description of Command

yum install arpack

This command will install arpack on the server.

yum remove arpack

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

yum -y remove arpack

This command will un-install arpack 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 arpack when using the -y flag.

yum update arpack

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

yum -y update arpack

This command will update arpack 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 arpack when using the -y flag.

yum info arpack

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

yum deplist arpack

This command will show you the dependencies for arpack. 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 arpack

This command will check if there is an update waiting on arpack. 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.