YUM groups

YUM provides the ability to group RPMs together to facilitate installing a number of RPMs simultaneously and for categorization in the Pirut GUI.

The following groups are defined in the YUM metadata files located in /opt/cell/yum-repos:

Cell Runtime Environment
Cell Development Libraries
Cell Development Tools
Cell Performance Tools
Cell Programming Examples
Cell Simulator

The Cell Runtime Environment group contains the RPMs that are only needed for runtime execution of Cell Broadband Engine Architecture applications. It does not contain any development libraries, tools or example code. When you use the --runtime option of the cellsdk script, only the Cell Runtime Environment group is included in the install, update or uninstall.

You can use the following YUM group commands to find out which RPMs are in a group and which groups are already installed:

groupinstall group1 [group2] [...]
groupupdate group1 [group2] [...]
grouplist [hidden]
groupremove group1 [group2] [...]
groupinfo group1 [...]

You can display the contents of these groups using Pirut, or by running the cellsdk script with the --gui option.

The following table lists each component and the YUM group that contains its RPMs. In general, components are typically defined in only one group. One exception is that if a Cell Development Library has a runtime RPM, then that RPM is in the Cell Runtime Environment group. Also if a Cell Development Library includes example code then that example code RPM is in the Cell Programming Examples group.

Table 1. YUM groups for each SDK component
Component	YUM group
ALF for Cell BE	Cell Development Libraries
ALF for Hybrid-x86	Cell Development Libraries
BLAS	Cell Development Libraries
Cell Performance Counter	Cell Performance Tools
Crash SPU Commands	Cell Runtime Environment
DaCS for Cell BE	Cell Development Libraries
DaCS for Hybrid-x86	Cell Development Libraries
Documentation	Cell Development Libraries
Examples	Cell Programming Examples
FDPR-Pro	Cell Performance Tools
GCC Toolchain	Cell Development Tools
Hybrid Performance Tools	Cell Performance Tools
IDE	Cell Development Tools
Kernel	Cell Runtime Environment
LIBFFT	Cell Development Libraries
LIBSPE/LIBSPE2	Cell Development Libraries
MASS Library	Cell Development Libraries
netpbm	Cell Development Libraries
numactl	Cell Development Libraries
OProfile	Cell Performance Tools
PDT	Cell Performance Tools
PDTR	Cell Performance Tools
Random Number Library	Cell Development Libraries
SIMDMath	Cell Development Libraries
Simulator	Cell Simulator
SPU-Isolation	Cell Development Libraries
SPU-Timer	Cell Development Libraries
SPU-Timing Tool	Cell Performance Tools
Sysroot Image	Cell Simulator
XL C/C++	Cell Development Tools

After installing the SDK you might want to install, update or uninstall components or individual RPMs in the SDK. You can install an RPM such as alf-hybrid-devel by typing the following command:

# yum install alf-hybrid-devel

YUM uses its repository information to ensure that you can only install the correct RPM on each platform. Some RPMs are only available with a target platform of X86_64 because they are needed for building X86_64 code using a host-based compiler such as GCC. The SDK contains several hybrid programming model libraries and performance tools.