How To Install volk on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install volk on Fedora 34.
What is volk
VOLK is the Vector-Optimized Library of Kernels. It is a library that contains kernels of hand-written SIMD code for different mathematical operations. Since each SIMD architecture can be very different and no compiler has yet come along to handle vectorization properly or highly efficiently, VOLK approaches the problem differently. VOLK is a sub-project of GNU Radio. volk 2.4.1 3.fc34 x86_64 494 k volk-2.4.1-3.fc34.src.rpm fedora The Vector Optimized Library of Kernels https GPLv3+ VOLK is the Vector-Optimized Library of Kernels. It is a library that contains kernels of hand-written SIMD code for different mathematical operations. Since each SIMD architecture can be very different and no compiler has yet come along to handle vectorization properly or highly efficiently, VOLK approaches the problem differently. VOLK is a sub-project of GNU Radio.
We can use yum or dnf to install volk on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install volk.
Install volk 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 volk using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install volk
Install volk 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 volk using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install volk
How To Uninstall volk on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the volk package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove volk
volk Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/volk-config-info
/usr/bin/volk_modtool
/usr/bin/volk_profile
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/15
/usr/lib/.build-id/15/9b9836c9c83160f64935278ef7c8311edbf2cc
/usr/lib/.build-id/16
/usr/lib/.build-id/16/60f8a29e79d398de807bf188ff99d46dd9ede9
/usr/lib/.build-id/2a
/usr/lib/.build-id/2a/52f0602a57f342764362619c6d1ef629711e59
/usr/lib64/libvolk.so.2.4
/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/volk_modtool
/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/volk_modtool/__init__.py
/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/volk_modtool/__init__.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/volk_modtool/__init__.pyo
/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/volk_modtool/__pycache__
/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/volk_modtool/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/volk_modtool/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/volk_modtool/__pycache__/cfg.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/volk_modtool/__pycache__/cfg.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/volk_modtool/__pycache__/volk_modtool_generate.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/volk_modtool/__pycache__/volk_modtool_generate.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/volk_modtool/cfg.py
/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/volk_modtool/cfg.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/volk_modtool/cfg.pyo
/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/volk_modtool/volk_modtool_generate.py
/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/volk_modtool/volk_modtool_generate.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/volk_modtool/volk_modtool_generate.pyo
/usr/share/doc/volk
/usr/share/doc/volk/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/volk/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/volk
/usr/share/licenses/volk/COPYING
/usr/bin/volk-config-info
/usr/bin/volk_modtool
/usr/bin/volk_profile
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/96
/usr/lib/.build-id/96/838dea835966695f4e1062dabc80d7401b4aac
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6/0dc2dc7f39e1afc074e587cba3511a3ecd1e2d
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5/d1cc7bfbe511d637125eb41ef752066a05d3a2
/usr/lib/libvolk.so.2.4
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/volk_modtool
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/volk_modtool/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/volk_modtool/__init__.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/volk_modtool/__init__.pyo
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/volk_modtool/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/volk_modtool/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/volk_modtool/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/volk_modtool/__pycache__/cfg.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/volk_modtool/__pycache__/cfg.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/volk_modtool/__pycache__/volk_modtool_generate.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/volk_modtool/__pycache__/volk_modtool_generate.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/volk_modtool/cfg.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/volk_modtool/cfg.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/volk_modtool/cfg.pyo
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/volk_modtool/volk_modtool_generate.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/volk_modtool/volk_modtool_generate.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/volk_modtool/volk_modtool_generate.pyo
/usr/share/doc/volk
/usr/share/doc/volk/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/volk/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/volk
/usr/share/licenses/volk/COPYING
References
- [volk website](https://github.com/gnuradio/volk https://github.com/gnuradio/volk)
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install volk on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.