Q-Logic OFED, IB0056101-00 G.02 manual Choose the Appropriate Download Files, Required OS Packages

Software Installation

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Some operating system packages are required for OpenFabrics; they are listed in Table 5-3.

	Table 5-3. Required OS Packages
OS Distribution		Required Packages
All		gcc, glib, glibc
All (For development)		glib-devel, glibc-devel, glibc-devel-32bit
		(to build 32-bit libraries on x86_86 and ppc64),
		zlib-devel
Red Hat and Red		kernel-devel, rpm-build
Hat-derived kernels
SLES 10		kernel-source,rpm

There are also OS package requirements for some specific components in QLogic OFED.

Table 5-4. Specific Component Requirements

QLogic OFED	Required OS Packages
Component
QLogic infinipath* soft-	openssh and openssh-server. Note that in the
ware (Listed as TrueScale	SLES 10 distribution, openssh-serveris a part of the
HCA Libs in the Installer)	openssh package.
	python, if the Multi-Purpose Daemon (MPD) job
	launcher or the ipath mtrr script is to be used. These
	packages must be on every node.
MVAPICH	a Fortran Compiler
MVAPICH2	libstdc++-devel, sysfsutils (SLES), lib-
	sysfs-devel (RedHat 5.0)
Open MPI	libstdc++-devel
ibutils	tcl-8.4, tcl-devel-8.4, tk, lib-
	stdc++-devel
QLogic openmpi_gcc*	libgfortran (on RHEL4)

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This section assumes that the correct Linux kernel, a supported distribution, and the required prerequisites (see Table 5-3and Table 5-4) have been installed on every node.

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