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suitesparse


Information about the package, suitesparse, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The suitesparse package is designed for, A collection of sparse matrix libraries.


Package Name:

suitesparse

Summary:

A collection of sparse matrix libraries

Description:

suitesparse is a collection of libraries for computations involving sparse matrices. The package includes the following libraries: AMD approximate minimum degree ordering BTF permutation to block triangular form (beta) CAMD constrained approximate minimum degree ordering COLAMD column approximate minimum degree ordering CCOLAMD constrained column approximate minimum degree ordering CHOLMOD sparse Cholesky factorization CSparse a concise sparse matrix package CXSparse CSparse extended: complex matrix, int and long int support KLU sparse LU factorization, primarily for circuit simulation LDL a simple LDL' factorization SQPR a multithread, multifrontal, rank-revealing sparse QR factorization method UMFPACK sparse LU factorization UFconfig configuration file for all the above packages.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

3.4.0

Release:

9.el6

Size:

793 k

Repository:

base

From Repository:

Licence:

LGPLv2+ and GPLv2+



Handy Yum Commands for suitesparse


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


Command

Description of Command

yum install suitesparse

This command will install suitesparse on the server.

yum remove suitesparse

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

yum -y remove suitesparse

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

yum update suitesparse

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

yum -y update suitesparse

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

yum info suitesparse

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

yum deplist suitesparse

This command will show you the dependencies for suitesparse. 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 suitesparse

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