Update Intel Parallel Studio

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#1

I have the commercial Intel Parallel Studio Cluster Edition installed. The software has no official SUSE support.

On the factory mailing list I was adviced to install a rpm repository.

I copied the rpms to a directory and added this as repository
URL: dir:///opt/intel_rpm_repository/parallel_studio_xe_2018_cluster_edition/rpm
Category: YUM

Since then I can do smoothly do zypper dup which had issues when I was installing the Intel software by the Intel install script.

Now there is a new Parallel Studio Cluster Edition available, hopefully icpc fixed it’s incompatibility with gcc 7.2’s header files.

What is the best way to update?

  • copy the new rpms to the rpm dir and do zypper dup? What is with the old rpm’s
  • create a new prm repo? But how to switch?

There are 187 rpms with 3.6GB in the repodir.

Thanks!

#2

I’d put the rpms in the local repo, and keep the older ones there to be able to downgrade to a previous version.
Before doing so, I would backup everything related to this software.

#3

Thanks, then I’ll try it this way.