prereq-centos8.md

aliBuild Prerequisites for CentOS 8

For ALICE O2, CentOS 8 (CC8) is not yet an officialy supported target platform.

Install or Upgrade the Required Packages

With root permissions, i.e. sudo or as root install the prerequisites using:

yum install -y epel-release
yum install -y dnf-plugins-core
yum config-manager --set-enabled powertools
yum update -y

dnf group install -y "Development Tools"

cat << EOF > /etc/yum.repos.d/alice-system-deps.repo
[alice-system-deps]
name=alice-system-deps
baseurl=https://s3.cern.ch/swift/v1/alibuild-repo/RPMS/o2-full-deps_el8.x86-64/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
EOF
yum update -y
yum install -y alice-o2-full-deps alibuild

You are now ready to start building ALICE software