Prerequisites
The following information is important to consider before beginning to install
Intel® VTune™
.
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System Requirements
Review the full list of system requirements listed in the
Release Notes.
User Permissions for Install
It is recommended that an administrator account is used to install, change, or uninstall the product. Users without administrator (or root user) access can install the product, but not all collectors will be available.
The user installing the product should have read and write permissions for the
/tmp
and
/Users/Shared/Library/Application Support/Intel/Licenses
directories.
Previous Versions of
Intel VTune
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Intel VTune
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You do not need to uninstall previous versions or updates of
VTune
before installing a newer version. However, if you do not remove older updates before installing a newer version, all product components that belong to the same major release will be replaced with the latest version for each major release update.
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For example, if you are installing Update 2 of the
VTune
2020, the
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VTune
2020 Update 1 version will be uninstalled and replaced with the new content for the next update. If you are installing
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VTune
2020 on top of VTune Amplifier 2019, your installation of VTune Amplifier 2019 will remain on your system and
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VTune
2020 will be installed beside the old version, duplicating common files, documentation, samples, and product components.
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Installing in a Cluster Environment
If you are installing in a cluster environment, you can install and use multiple versions of the product on the same system. However, kernel driver usage is limited to a single version of
VTune
. This means you can have multiple copies of
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VTune
installed without the Intel sampling drivers and a single version of the product with the drivers installed. The latter would be enabled with the advanced types of analysis using hardware event based sampling analysis data collection.
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Xcode* Support
If you will be using Xcode*, make sure that a supported version of Xcode is installed. If you install a new version of Xcode in the future, you need to reinstall
VTune
.
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