How To Install clinfo on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install clinfo on CentOS 7.
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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install clinfo.
Install clinfo on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install clinfo using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install clinfo
Install clinfo on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install clinfo using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install clinfo
How To Uninstall clinfo on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the clinfo package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove clinfo
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install clinfo on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
