How to specify installation directory for Parallel Studio XE 2019 on Linux

Tomushev__Misha · ‎11-01-2018

I had installed Studio to a host that was supposed to join existing cluster. install.sh picked the installation directory. It happened to be different, than installation directory used on other hosts. The "mpirun -hosts old-host1, old-hos2, new-host IMB-MPI1" hangs. Turns out all paricipating hosts have to have identical installation.
I was unable to find how to specify the installation directory.

I was unable to cleanly uninstall the previous the previous Studio version.
If a host had previous version of Studio installed, seem to affect the location of new installation.
I wanted to enable the default installation at /opt/intel, for that I wanted to clean up the host before running install.sh for new install.
Did "uninstall" option running install.sh, removed rpms, removed whole directories: sometimes it worked, other times not.

Viet_H_Intel · ‎11-02-2018

Not sure what happened in your ENV, but $sh install.sh should give you an option to specify any installation directory.

Thanks,

Viet

Tomushev__Misha · ‎11-02-2018

As you see, there is no option to specify installation directory.

[root@NARCH-R1-38 parallel_studio_xe_2019_cluster_edition]# $sh ./install.sh -h

This script installs Intel(R) Software Development Products.

Usage: install.sh [options]

-h, --help print this message
-v, --version print version information
-s, --silent [FILE] run setup silently, with settings in the configuration file
-d, --duplicate [FILE] run setup interactively, record the user input into the
configuration file
-l, --lang set user interface language
-t, --tmp-dir [DIRECTORY] set custom temporary folder
-D, --download-dir [DIRECTORY] set custom download folder
--download_url [URL] set custom download URL
--user-mode run setup with current user privileges
--ignore-signature skip signature validation
--ignore-cpu skip CPU model check
--SHARED_INSTALL install to a network-mounted drive or shared file system
for multiple users
--list_components list available components

All provided paths must be absolute.

Unfortunately installation is done by binary not a script... Can't even see what is it doing.

The wiered thing is installation on my hosts is done either on /opt/intel (which is default and what I want) or /home/mpi/intel/intel2017. The /home/mpi/intel/intel2017 was the place where previsous version on parallel studio was installed.
I had scrubbed the host the best I can, to make it forget the previous installation:

rm -rf /opt/intel
rm -rf /home/mpi/intel
rm_rpm_list.sh /mnt/scripts/ecn/rpm.list <--- this the content of rpm directory at the source installation
reboot

...But it persists on /home/mpi/intel/intel2017. Something tells installation that this is the place. What is it?

Viet_H_Intel · ‎11-02-2018

Can you just run "$sh install.sh", hit Enter and follow the instructions? it will let you choose the install directory.

Thanks,

Viet

Tomushev__Misha · ‎11-02-2018

Attached is the log of installation. I did find the place where I could've specified the installation directory, but the installation would not allow me to change the default /home/mpi/intel/intel2017 because of some already installed component. How to find what is still installed and how to uninstall it?

Viet_H_Intel · ‎11-02-2018

There should be an uninstall.sh in /home/mpi/intel/intel2017. Run sh uninstall.sh first, then it should allow you to change installation dir later with 19.0.

See this link https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/uninstalling-intel-software-development-products-linux

Thanks,

Viet

Tomushev__Misha · ‎11-03-2018

That directory is gone :-(. In any event, I was relying on instructions that stated that "install will detect and uninstall". Clearly there is a problem with the script.

However, I think I found a crude hack to scrub off the old setup: remove ALL "intel-*" rpms. That seams to work.