Information about the package, petsc, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The petsc package is designed for, Portable Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation.
Package Name:
petsc
Summary:
Portable Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation
Description:
PETSc, pronounced PET-see (the S is silent), is a suite of data structures and routines for the scalable (parallel) solution of scientific applications modeled by partial differential equations.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
3.7.7
Release:
1.el6
Size:
3.6 M
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
BSD
Control the petsc package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install petsc
This command will install petsc on the server.
yum remove petsc
This command will un-install petsc on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove petsc, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove petsc
This command will un-install petsc 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 petsc when using the -y flag.
yum update petsc
This command will update petsc to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove petsc, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update petsc
This command will update petsc 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 petsc when using the -y flag.
yum info petsc
This command will show you core information about the petsc package.
yum deplist petsc
This command will show you the dependencies for petsc. 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 petsc
This command will check if there is an update waiting on petsc. 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.