Installing rocAL with the package installer

Installing rocAL with the package installer#

Three rocAL packages are available:

  • rocal: The rocAL runtime package. This is the basic rocAL package that only provides dynamic libraries. It must always be installed.

  • rocal-dev: The rocAL development package. This package installs a full suite of libraries, header files, and samples. This package needs to be installed to use samples.

  • rocal-test: A test package that provides a CTest to verify the installation.

All the required prerequisites are installed when the package installation method is used.

Note

TurboJPEG must be installed manually on SLES.
To use FFMPeg on SLES and RedHat, the FFMPeg-dev package must be installed manually.

Basic installation#

Use the following commands to install only the rocAL runtime package:

sudo apt install rocal

sudo yum install rocal

sudo zypper install rocal

Complete installation#

Use the following commands to install rocal, rocal-dev, and rocal-test:

sudo apt-get install rocal rocal-dev rocal-test

sudo yum install rocal rocal-devel rocal-test

sudo zypper install rocal rocal-devel rocal-test

The rocAL test package will install a CTest module. Use the following steps to test the installation:

mkdir rocAL-test
cd rocAL-test
cmake /opt/rocm/share/rocal/test/
ctest -VV