How To Install clinfo on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install clinfo in Fedora 36. clinfo is Enumerate OpenCL platforms and devices

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install clinfo on Fedora 36.

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 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install clinfo.

Install clinfo on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install clinfo

Install clinfo on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 36

To uninstall only the clinfo package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove clinfo

clinfo Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/clinfo
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/55
/usr/lib/.build-id/55/27a495b0e15da7c854913ede700c6029b353cd
/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

clinfo website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install clinfo on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).