Chapter 4
Installing the Deployment Software
This chapter details the procedures for installing deployment software on RedHat/CentOS and
Ubuntu operating systems. All software installations use standard Linux RPM and Linux DEB
packages.
The deployment software installation requires installing the following software packages:
• Xilinx
®
runtime (XRT)
XRT provides the libraries and drivers for an application to run on Alveo™ cards.
• Deployment shell
The deployment shell provides the base firmware needed to run pre-compiled applications
and is significantly smaller than the development shell but cannot be used to compile or create
a new application. While you can also install the development software detailed in
Installing the Development Software
on a machine with a card installed, doing so is not
necessary to run applications.
IMPORTANT! Root access is required for all software and firmware installations.
IMPORTANT! L'accès Root est requis pour toutes les installations logicielles et firmware.
Wichtig! Root-Zugriff ist für alle Software- und Firmware-Installationen erforderlich.
XRT and Deployment Shell Installation
Procedures on RedHat and CentOS
Use the following steps to download and install the software using an RPM installation package.
For details on upgrading or downgrading the XRT and deployment shell, see
Downgrading, and Uninstalling XRT and Deployment Shell on RedHat and CentOS
Note
:
In order to successfully install XRT, you need to have kernel-headers and kernel-devel packages
installed on your machine. On CentOS/RedHat, XRT supports Linux kernel up to:
3.10.0-862.14.4.el7.x86_64.
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