Installing InfiniBand packages on Red Hat 6.x

Complete the following steps to install InfiniBand packages on any Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 6.

Before you begin

Make sure that your repositories are already set up as your environment requires.

Note: The ibutils package is not available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 on ppc64. However, it is available on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1, and can also be built from source.

Procedure

To install the InfiniBand packages, run the following command. This command also resolves any dependencies that might exist.
```
yum groupinstall "Infiniband Support"
```
Optional: You can install packages such as infiniband-diags and perftest with the following command:
```
yum install infiniband-diags
yum install perftest 
```
Restart RDMA with the following command:
```
/etc/rc.d/init.d/rdma restart
```

What to do next

To view the package contents, run the following command:

yum groupinfo "Infiniband Support"