DRM Library installation

This section explains how to install the Accelize DRM library API from packages and from source.

Supported OS

Accelize provides the DRM library packages for a wide variety of Linux OS.

Following OS are fully tested, including FPGA based hardware and end to end tests:

  • RHEL/Centos 7

  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic

Following OS are minimally tested only (without hardware):

  • RHEL/Centos 8

  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial

  • Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal

  • Fedora (2 latest stable versions)

  • Ubuntu (2 latest stable versions)

  • Debian 10 Buster

  • Debian 9 Stretch

Note

We limit hardware tested OS to those which are supported by FPGA vendors. But, we do minimal tests on more OS to ensure to our customers that they will be able to install the library on almost any Linux OS and that our library is future-proof and will be compatible without efforts to any OS that will be supported in the future by FPGA vendors.

Software requirements

  • The Accelize DRM C/C++ library requires a compiler with full C++11 support.

  • The Accelize DRM Python library requires Python >= 3.5.

Installation from packages

The DRM library packages are available only for the amd64 / x86_64 architecture.

Install Accelize repository

Packages are hosted on the Accelize repository.

Note

Packages and repositories metadata are signed for security.

Accelize provides stable and a prerelease channels.

To install the prerelease channel simply replace stable by prerelease in the rest of this document.

Warning

No support is provided for prerelease packages.

Debian, Ubuntu: DEB repository

To install the repository, run the following commands:

# Ensure common system utilities are installed
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y apt-transport-https software-properties-common lsb-release gnupg curl

# Add Accelize GPG public key for package signature verification
curl -fsSL https://tech.accelize.com/gpg | sudo apt-key add -

# Install repository
sudo add-apt-repository "deb https://tech.accelize.com/deb $(lsb_release -cs) stable"
sudo apt update

RHEL, CentOS, Fedora: RPM repository

To install the Accelize repository, run the following commands:

On Fedora, RHEL 8, CentOS 8
# Ensure config manager is installed
sudo dnf install -y 'dnf-command(config-manager)'

# Install repository
sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://tech.accelize.com/rpm/accelize_stable.repo
On RHEL 7, CentOS 7
# Ensure that config manager is installed
sudo yum install -y yum-utils

 # Install Accelize repository:
sudo yum-config-manager --add-repo https://tech.accelize.com/rpm/accelize_stable.repo

Python Library package

This section explains how to install the DRM library as a python module. It is available for Python 3 only.

This package provides 3 levels of integration:

  • The Accelize DRM library Python

  • Cython headers to the C/C++ Accelize DRM library.

Depending on your OS, use the following command to install the Python package:

On Debian, Ubuntu
sudo apt install -y python3-accelize-drm
On RHEL 8, CentOS 8
# Ensure EPEL repository is installed
sudo dnf install -y https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm

# Install package
sudo dnf install -y python3-accelize-drm
On RHEL 7, CentOS 7
# Ensure EPEL repository is installed
sudo yum install -y https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

# Install package
sudo yum install -y python3-accelize-drm
On Fedora
sudo dnf install -y python3-accelize-drm

Note

The python DRM library is a wrapper of the C/C++ DRM library. The package will install automatically the C/C++ library.

Installation has been completed. To verify your installation, refer to the section ‘Validate your integration’ in Getting started.

C/C++ Library package

This section explains how to install the DRM library as a C/C++ library API.

Run the following command:

On Debian, Ubuntu
sudo apt install -y libaccelize-drm
On RHEL 8, CentOS 8
# Ensure EPEL repository is installed
sudo dnf install -y https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm

# Install package
sudo dnf install -y libaccelize-drm
On RHEL 7, CentOS 7
# Ensure EPEL repository is installed
sudo yum install -y https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

# Install package
sudo yum install -y libaccelize-drm
On Fedora
sudo dnf install -y libaccelize-drm

C/C++ Library Development package

This section explains how to install the DRM library as a C/C++ library API. It provides the C/C++ header files and the documentation.

Run the following command:

On Debian, Ubuntu
sudo apt install -y libaccelize-drm-dev
On RHEL 8, CentOS 8
# Ensure EPEL repository is installed
sudo dnf install -y https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm

# Install package
sudo dnf install -y libaccelize-drm-devel
On RHEL 7, CentOS 7
# Ensure EPEL repository is installed
sudo yum install -y https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

# Install package
sudo yum install -y libaccelize-drm-devel
On Fedora
sudo dnf install -y libaccelize-drm-devel

Note

The development package also install an offline version of this documentation that can be found read by opening /usr/share/accelize/drm/doc/html/index.html.

Installation from source

The installation from source is only recommended if there is no package available for your configuration or to contribute to the DRM library.

This is equivalent to install the C/C++ library package, the C/C++ library development package and optionally the Python library package.

If you need the full detail of building and testing options, refer to DRM library build & test.

Minimal requirements:

  • git

  • cmake >= 3.12

  • make (Or any CMake supported build tool)

  • GCC, G++ >= 4.8 (Or any compatible C++11 compiler)

  • libcurl-devel

  • jsoncpp-devel

Python library requirements:

  • Python >= 3.5

  • Python-devel

  • setuptools

  • wheel

  • cython >= 0.28

Run following commands to install all requirements:

On Debian >= 10, Ubuntu >= 18.10
# Minimal requirements
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y git make g++ libcurl4-openssl-dev libjsoncpp-dev cmake

# Python library requirements
sudo apt install -y python3-dev python3-wheel python3-setuptools cython3
On Debian < 10, Ubuntu < 18.10
# Minimal requirements
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y git make g++ libcurl4-openssl-dev libjsoncpp-dev python3-pip
python3 -m pip install --user -U pip
pip3 install --user -U cmake

# Python library requirements
sudo apt install -y python3-dev
pip3 install --user -U setuptools wheel cython
On RHEL 8, CentOS 8
# Ensure EPEL repository is installed
sudo dnf install -y https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm

# Minimal requirements
sudo dnf install -y git make gcc gcc-c++ libcurl-devel jsoncpp-devel python3-pip
python3 -m pip install --user -U pip
pip3 install --user -U cmake

# Python library requirements
sudo dnf install -y python3-devel
pip3 install --user -U setuptools wheel cython
On RHEL 7, CentOS 7
# Ensure EPEL repository is installed
sudo yum install -y https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

# Minimal requirements
sudo yum install -y git make gcc gcc-c++ libcurl-devel jsoncpp-devel python3-pip
python3 -m pip install --user -U pip
pip3 install --user -U cmake

# Python library requirements
sudo yum install -y python3-devel
pip3 install --user -U setuptools wheel cython
On Fedora
# Minimal requirements
sudo dnf install -y git make gcc gcc-c++ libcurl-devel jsoncpp-devel cmake

# Python library requirements
sudo dnf install -y python3-devel python3-setuptools python3-Cython python3-wheel

Then run the following commands to build and install the library:

git clone https://github.com/Accelize/drmlib.git --recursive --depth 1
mkdir -p drmlib/build
cd drmlib/build

# The "-DPYTHON3=ON" option is required only to build the Python library
cmake -DPYTHON3=ON ..

make -j
sudo make install

Build packages

If you need to build packages to easily deploy the library on your production environment, you need to install additional requirements:

For DEB Packages:

  • pkg-config

  • dpkg-dev

  • file

For RPM packages:

  • rpm-build

Run following commands to install requirements:

On Debian, Ubuntu
sudo apt install -y pkg-config dpkg-dev file
On Fedora, RHEL 8, CentOS 8
sudo dnf install -y rpm-build
On RHEL 7, CentOS 7
sudo yum install -y rpm-build

Once dependencies are installed, simply run the following section:

git clone https://github.com/Accelize/drmlib.git --recursive --depth 1
mkdir -p drmlib/build
cd drmlib/build

# The "-DPKG=ON" option is required to build the package
cmake -DPYTHON3=ON -DPKG=ON ..

make -j
make package

Packages will be generated in the drmlib/build/packages directory.

Installation with Ansible

We provides an Ansible role to install the Accelize DRM. The role is available on Ansible galaxy and can be installed using the following command:

ansible-galaxy install accelize.accelize_drm

Once installed, the role can be used in your Ansible playbooks:

- hosts: servers
  become: true
  roles:
     - role: accelize.accelize_drm

For more information on the role and its variables. See the role Ansible Galaxy page.