Is it possible to install the qiskit addon dice solver on Rocky Linux 8?

[JoelHBierman]

Our department has a cluster running Rocky Linux 8 and I am trying to figure out a way to install the qiskit dice solver on it. I was hoping that since Rocky Linux is based on RHEL, that this would work so long as all of the dependencies listed for Fedora are installed and loaded. This seems to not quite be the case. Running ./build.sh , results in the following make error:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lboost_mpi
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [Makefile:282: Dice] Error 1

Since I don't have admin privileges on the cluster, I've tried to figure out which dependency is missing and causing these errors by installing it in a Rocky Linux 8 virtual machine. Installing all of the dependencies listed for Fedora except for boost-openmpi-devel and hdf5-openmpi-devel seems to be sufficient to reproduce this error. The issue I am facing is that packages by these names do not appear to be in the Rocky Linux 8 repositories. Do these packages exist under a different alias or are they not available to Rocky Linux 8 at all? Thank you in advance for any help you can provide.

[kevinsung]

I see you closed the issue. Did you figure it out? If so, do you mind sharing here what you did?

[JoelHBierman]

For now I have closed it because it seems like for now the premise that openmpi-devel and hdf5-openmpi-devel aren't available on Rocky Linux 8 doesn't seem to be true. I don't know why dnf couldn't find it on my VM, but admins on the actual cluster were able to install these packages under the same name as Fedora. I have yet to test if this resolves the issue, but if there are additional errors, I think it would be appropriate to re-open the issue.

[JoelHBierman]

It looks like these issues persist despite having installed these two packages installed on the cluster. If I get the above error message, which package names should I double check are installed and in the path?

[kevinsung]

Did you load the module?

module load mpi/openmpi-x86_64

[JoelHBierman]

Using dnf list | grep <package_name>, it appears that all of the dependencies are installed (except possibly environment-modules), however if I run module load mpi/openmpi-x86_64, it will return an error saying the module is unknown. By running module avail, I can see that the closest module (by name) would be openmpi4/4.1.6. The original error related to lboost_mpi appears when loading this module. Perhaps these two modules are not interchangeable. For the sake of clarity, the commands I am running and the packages that are shown to be installed are the following:

$ dnf list --installed | grep make
make.x86_64                                1:4.2.1-11.el8
$dnf list --installed | grep gcc-c++
gcc-c++.x86_64                            8.5.0-20.el8
$dnf list --installed | grep boost-devel
boost-devel.x86_64                    1.66.0-13.el8
$dnf list --installed| grep openmpi-devel
openmpi-devel.x86_64               2:4.1.1-5.el8
$dnf list --installed | grep openmpi
openmpi.x86_64                         2:4.1.1-5.el8
$dnf list --installed | grep hdf5-openmpi-devel
hdf5-openmpi-devel.x86_64    1.10.5-4.el8

The only command that does not return a package name is dnf list --installed | grep environment-modules, so maybe that is the culprit.