[ofa-general] Debian/Ubuntu status

[Vladimir Sokolovsky]

Robert LeBlanc wrote:
> In doing some research, I've noticed that the wiki states for 1.3 that
> Ubuntu is under the Supported OSes for basic testing. What does that mean?
> I've looked through the documentation and everything still looks very RPM
> based. I've noticed a couple of messages in the archive directed to Vlad
> about the status of certain Debain/Ubuntu issues, but really didn't see any
> responses. We hacked our own scripts to compile 1.1, which have been working
> well for us (MPI, IPoIB and Lustre), but we are unsure if we are missing
> anything since we are new at this. It would be real nice to be able to build
> .debs straight from the OFED source. We would be willing to help were we
> can. A nice overview of the build process for RPMs would help us translate
> it (not extremely familiar with RPM distros).
> 
> Thanks,
> Robert
>  
> Robert LeBlanc
> College of Life Sciences Computer Support
> Brigham Young University
> leblanc at byu.edu
> (801)422-1882
> 

Hi Robert,
Currently deb packages are not supported by OFED, but you can try to install OFED-1.3 using RPMs.
First, install 'rpm' package on your Ubuntu and then run:
OFED-1.3/install.pl --without-depcheck.

Regards,
Vladimir