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5 – Software Installation
Installing the InfiniPath and OpenFabrics RPMs

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Linux distributions of InfiniPath and OpenFabrics software are installed from 
binary RPMs. RPM is a Linux packaging and installation tool used by Red Hat, 
SUSE, and CentOS. There are multiple interdependent RPM packages that make 
up the InfiniPath and OpenFabrics software. 

The OpenFabrics kernel module support is now part of the InfiniPath RPMs. This 
kernel module includes support for kernel-based protocols such as IPoIB, SRP, 
the multicast communications manager, and the subnet administration agent.

Programs that incorporate the user IB verbs interfaces, such as diagnostics, 
benchmarks, verbs-based MPIs (for example, Intel MPI Version 3.0), and SDP 
sockets must have RPMs installed in the OpenFabrics directories. See 

 “

” for a complete description of the RPMs’ contents.

Each set of RPMs uses a build identifier xxx and a distribution identifier yyy. 

The distribution identifiers for this release are 

rhel4

 and sles10. The RPM 

distribution identifiers are listed in 

 with the associated operating 

systems.

rhel4

Fedora 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.4 (RHEL4.4), RHEL4.5, 
RHEL 4.6, CentOS 4.4-4.6 (Rocks 4.4-4.6), Scientific Linux 4.4-4.6, 
RHEL5.0-5.1, CentOS 5.0-5.1, Scientific Linux 5.0-5.1, for x86_64 
systems 

sles10 

SLES 10 and SLES 10 SP1 for x86_64 systems

RPMs contain config files. Your current config files will not be 

overwritten when the new RPMs are installed. New config files contain the 

suffix .rpmnew and can be found in the /etc/sysconfig directory. 

Check the new files to see if there is anything you want to add to your 
standard config files.