Rebecca, Thanks for this, most helpful.
On Sat, 2014-04-19 at 20:34 +0100, Rebecca N. Palmer wrote: > nvidia-libopencl1 is OpenCL 1.1, not 1.2, and pyopencl hence doesn't > work with it: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pyopencl/+bug/1174205 OK, I purged this package and various others went with it. (But some came back…) > You can still use pyopencl with Nvidia hardware, as the > hardware-specific part is opencl-icd not libopencl1. The choices for > this are: > nvidia-opencl-icd (Nvidia GPUs) > mesa-opencl-icd (Radeon GPUs; plans to support more in the future) > amd-opencl-icd (Radeon GPUs, and CPUs) > amd-opencl-icd-legacy (older Radeon GPUs) > beignet (Intel GPUs) > > At present it is necessary to choose the correct opencl-icd manually, as > the package management system doesn't know what GPU you have, and > installing them all doesn't work as beignet crashes if its hardware is > not present. If I try to install python3-pyopencl Aptitude tries to install the AMD package. But as you hint, by installing the nvidia-opencl-icd package manually first it pulls in various NVIDIA bits that were purged a few moments earlier, but then allows python3-pyopencl to install fine. Thanks, everything now all tickety-boo. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
