I just installed IBM CELL SDK, CELL simulator and CELLIDE on my PC box with newest Fedora. It was a quite painful process and I couldn’t find anywhere full installation instruction. It’s a pity that IBM releases such interesting technology without proper support. So here is the full installation guide.

First get all the needed rpm’s and iso’s from IBM or other website:

systemsim-cell-3.1-25.f9.x86_64.rpm
sysroot_image-3.1-1.noarch.rpm
cell-install-3.1.0-0.0.noarch.rpm
CellSDK-Extras-Fedora_3.1.0.0.0.iso
CellSDK-Devel-Fedora_3.1.0.0.0.iso

Now let’s install sdk and simulator.

yum install tk rsync sed tcl wget
rpm -ivh cell-install-3.1.0-0.0.noarch.rpm
cd /opt/cell
cellsdk --iso /root/cell/cellsdk/ install
cellsdk_sync_simulator install

Open ~/.bash_rc with You favourite text editor and modify PATH there:

export PATH=$PATH:/opt/ibm/systemsim-cell/bin:/opt/cell/toolchain/bin

To run simulator from console use:

systemsim -g

Remember to use fast simulator mode, it’s very useful even on newest i7 :). Now let’s setup cellide (You don’t need to install Fedora Eclipse).

yum install cellide cell-spu-timing alf-ide-template fdpr-launcher ibm-java2-i386-jre

Time to download fix pack 3.1-SDKMA-Linux-x86_64-IF01 “intended only for RHEL” :), so Eclipse will detect local cell simulator. Install it.

rpm -Uvh cellide-3.1.0-7.i386.rpm

Finally run eclipse with:

./eclipse -vm /opt/ibm/java2-i386-50/jre/bin