SDK 3.0 Installation guide

This post is a summary of the SDK 3.0 installation guide on Fedora Core 7, described in the paper IBM SDK for Multicore Acceleration V3.0 Installation Guide.

Prerequisites. Some packages are required. This packages can be installed as follows:

#yum update selinux-policy selinux-policy-targeted
#yum install rsync sed tcl wget
#yum install expat

Download iso images. The Cell Broadband Engine Resource Center provides the developer and extras packages. If you intent to use the cell broadband engine simulator you must also download the extras package.

Once these images have been downloaded a temporal directory has to be created and the recent downloaded packages copied in it.

#mkdir -p /tmp/cellsdkiso
#cd /tmp/cellsdkiso
#cp /path_iso_images_are_located/*.iso /tmp/cellsdkiso

Yum daemon has to be stopped during installation.

#/etc/init.d/yum-updatesd stop

The daemon status can be checked with the instruction below:

#/etc/init.d/yum-updatesd status

The installation rpm file has to be downloaded and installed.

#rpm -ivh cell-install-3.0.0-1.0.noarch.rpm

In this moment the skd installation starts.

#cd /opt/cell
#./cellsdk –iso /tmp/cellsdkiso install

A graphical installation can be launch. This is an alternative to the sentences above. A new parameter (–gui) has to be added.

#./cellsdk –gui –iso /tmp/cellsdkiso install

Once installation has finished one line has to be added to the yum configuration file (/etc/yum.conf):

exclude=blas kernel numactl oprofile

To check our sysroot image is updated:

#/opt/cell/cellsdk_sync_sdk_simulator install