How To Install spirv-tools on CentOS 8

spirv-tools is API and commands for processing SPIR-V modules

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install spirv-tools on CentOS 8.

What is spirv-tools

The package includes an assembler, binary module parser, disassembler, and validator for SPIR-V..

We can use yum or dnf to install spirv-tools on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install spirv-tools.

Install spirv-tools on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install spirv-tools using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install spirv-tools

Install spirv-tools on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install spirv-tools using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install spirv-tools

How To Uninstall spirv-tools on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the spirv-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove spirv-tools

spirv-tools Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/spirv-as
/usr/bin/spirv-cfg
/usr/bin/spirv-dis
/usr/bin/spirv-lesspipe.sh
/usr/bin/spirv-link
/usr/bin/spirv-opt
/usr/bin/spirv-reduce
/usr/bin/spirv-val
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/75
/usr/lib/.build-id/75/87278141180c04d491803d61dd347c49df305b
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d/222e31a5300ba824fdc66ec62c1b2c4b758532
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e/1fc241411334b85ff84c3065b3265e70b75244
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1/7140e6f1f71021285e73c5c65e78d930662a27
/usr/lib/.build-id/c8
/usr/lib/.build-id/c8/f1371114caf69a503fc50a4b08e0e2d865c501
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca/6d27805c58a437c0f469e7bac1335d656b5a9f
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2/d3ece722b8aa1c045efa4b88f6c32bfa233595
/usr/share/doc/spirv-tools
/usr/share/doc/spirv-tools/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/spirv-tools/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/spirv-tools
/usr/share/licenses/spirv-tools/LICENSE

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install spirv-tools on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.