How To Install clinfo on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install clinfo on Fedora 34.
What is clinfo
A simple OpenCL application that enumerates all possible platform and device properties. Inspired by AMD’s program of the same name, it is coded in pure C99 and it tries to output all possible information, including that provided by platform-specific extensions, and not to crash on platform-unsupported properties (e.g. 1.2 properties on 1.1 platforms).
We can use yum or dnf to install clinfo on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install clinfo.
Install clinfo on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install clinfo using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install clinfo
Install clinfo on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install clinfo using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install clinfo
How To Uninstall clinfo on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the clinfo package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove clinfo
clinfo Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/clinfo
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/40
/usr/lib/.build-id/40/abd7c87e16e252b7ecde089fcb630be40a637c
/usr/share/doc/clinfo
/usr/share/doc/clinfo/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/clinfo
/usr/share/licenses/clinfo/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/clinfo/legalcode.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/clinfo.1.gz
/usr/bin/clinfo
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/67
/usr/lib/.build-id/67/117185aafedf9663a5c11e0d46fd9661755701
/usr/share/doc/clinfo
/usr/share/doc/clinfo/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/clinfo
/usr/share/licenses/clinfo/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/clinfo/legalcode.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/clinfo.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install clinfo on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
