Review the full list of system requirements listed in the Release Notes.

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.

You do not need to uninstall previous versions or updates of

VTune

Profiler

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.

For example, if you are installing Update 2 of the

VTune

Profiler

2020, the

VTune

Profiler

2020 Update 1 version will be uninstalled and replaced with the new content for the next update. If you are installing

VTune

Profiler

2020 on top of VTune Amplifier 2019, your installation of VTune Amplifier 2019 will remain on your system and

VTune

Profiler

2020 will be installed beside the old version, duplicating common files, documentation, samples, and product components.

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

Profiler

. This means you can have multiple copies of

VTune

Profiler

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.

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

Profiler

.