For details on upgrading or downgrading the XRT and deployment platform, see Changing XRT
and Target Platform Versions.
1. XRT installation requires Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) and a related repository.
The initial setup depends on whether you are using RedHat or CentOS.
For Redhat:
a. Open a terminal window and enter the following command:
$ sudo yum-config-manager --enable rhel-7-server-optional-rpms
This enables an additional repository on your system.
b. Enter the following command to install EPEL:
$ sudo yum install -y https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-
release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
For CentOS:
• Enter the following command in a terminal window:
$ sudo yum install epel-release
This installs and enables the repository for Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL).
2. Run the following two commands to install kernel headers and kernel development packages.
Ensure that
uname
is surrounded by backticks (
`
) and not single quotes (
'
):
$ sudo yum install kernel-headers-`uname -r`
$ sudo yum install kernel-devel-`uname -r`
Note: If these yum commands fail because they cannot find packages matching your kernel version, set
up a Vault repository. For more information, see Creating a Vault Repository for CentOS.
3. After the above command completes, reboot your machine.
4. From the
Getting Started tab of the Alveo U50 Product page
, use the selection tool to display
the desired Xilinx
®
runtime (XRT) and deployment target installation packages.
Download the Xilinx runtime (XRT) installation package file by clicking on the displayed XRT
installation package.
5. Install the XRT installation package by running the following command from within the
directory where the installation packages reside.
<version>
is the latter part of the
installation package file name.
$ sudo yum install ./xrt_<version>.rpm
This will install the XRT and its necessary dependencies. Follow the instructions when
prompted throughout the installation.
6. From the
Getting Started tab of the Alveo U50 Product Page
, download the deployment
target installation
tar.gz
file by clicking on the displayed filename.
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