<p>In general, the installation process for ArrayFire looks like this:</p>

<oltype="1">

<li>Install prerequisites</li>

<li><ahref="http://ci.arrayfire.org/userContent/download/">Download</a> the ArrayFire installer for your operating system</li>

<li><ahref="http://go.arrayfire.com/l/37882/2015-03-31/mmhqy">Download</a> the ArrayFire installer for your operating system</li>

<li>Install ArrayFire</li>

<li>Test the installation</li>

<li><ahref="#GettingHelp">Where to go for help?</a></li>

<h1><aclass="anchor"id="Windows"></a> Windows</h1>

<p>If you wish to use CUDA or OpenCL please ensure that you have also installed support for these technologies from your video card vendor's website.</p>

<p>Next<ahref="http://ci.arrayfire.org/userContent/download/">download</a> and run the ArrayFire installer. After it has completed, you need to add ArrayFire to the path for all users.</p>

<p>Next<ahref="http://go.arrayfire.com/l/37882/2015-03-31/mmhqy">download</a> and run the ArrayFire installer. After it has completed, you need to add ArrayFire to the path for all users.</p>

<oltype="1">

<li>Open Advanced System Settings:<ul>

<li>Windows 8: Move the Mouse pointer to the bottom right corner of the screen, Right click, choose System. Then click "Advanced System Settings"</li>

# Enable GPU support (OpenCL):

apt-get install ocl-icd-libopencl1

</pre><p>If you wish to use CUDA, please<ahref="https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-zone">download the latest version of CUDA</a> and install it on your system.</p>

<p>Next<ahref="http://ci.arrayfire.org/userContent/download/">download</a> ArrayFire. After you have the file, run the installer.</p><preclass="fragment">./arrayfire_*_Linux_x86_64.sh --exclude-subdir --prefix=/usr/local

<p>Next<ahref="http://go.arrayfire.com/l/37882/2015-03-31/mmhqy">download</a> ArrayFire. After you have the file, run the installer.</p><preclass="fragment">./arrayfire_*_Linux_x86_64.sh --exclude-subdir --prefix=/usr/local

</pre><h2><aclass="anchor"id="RPM-distros"></a> RedHat, Fedora, and CentOS</h2>

<p>First install the prerequisite packages:</p><preclass="fragment"># Install prerequiste packages

yum install freeimage atlas fftw libGLEW libGLEWmx glfw cmake

</pre><p>On Centos and Redhat the<code>glfw</code> package is outdated and you will need to compile it from source. Please<ahref="https://github.com/arrayfire/arrayfire/wiki/GLFW-for-ArrayFire">these instructions</a>.</p>

<p>If you wish to use CUDA, please<ahref="https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads">download the latest version of CUDA</a> and install it on your system.</p>

<p>Next<ahref="http://ci.arrayfire.org/userContent/download/">download</a> ArrayFire. After you have the file, run the installer.</p><preclass="fragment">./arrayfire_*_Linux_x86_64.sh --exclude-subdir --prefix=/usr/local

<p>Next<ahref="http://go.arrayfire.com/l/37882/2015-03-31/mmhqy">download</a> ArrayFire. After you have the file, run the installer.</p><preclass="fragment">./arrayfire_*_Linux_x86_64.sh --exclude-subdir --prefix=/usr/local

</pre><h2><aclass="anchor"id="Ubuntu"></a> Ubuntu 14.04 and later</h2>

<p>First install the prerequisite packages:</p><preclass="fragment"># Prerequisite packages:

sudo apt-get install libfreeimage-dev libatlas3gf-base libfftw3-dev cmake

</pre><h3>Special instructions for Tegra K1</h3>

<p>If you are using ArrayFire on the Tegra K1 also install these packages:</p><preclass="fragment">sudo apt-get install libatlas3gf-base libatlas-dev libfftw3-dev liblapacke-dev

</pre><p>In addition to these packages, you will need to compile GLFW3 from source using the instructions above.</p>

<p>Finally,<ahref="http://ci.arrayfire.org/userContent/download/">download</a> ArrayFire. After you have the file, run the installer using:</p><preclass="fragment">./arrayfire_*_Linux_x86_64.sh --exclude-subdir --prefix=/usr/local

<p>Finally,<ahref="http://go.arrayfire.com/l/37882/2015-03-31/mmhqy">download</a> ArrayFire. After you have the file, run the installer using:</p><preclass="fragment">./arrayfire_*_Linux_x86_64.sh --exclude-subdir --prefix=/usr/local

</pre><h1><aclass="anchor"id="OSX"></a> Mac OSX</h1>

<p>On OSX there are several dependencies that are not integrated into the operating system. The ArrayFire installer automatically satisfies these dependencies using<ahref="http://brew.sh/">Homebrew</a>. If you don't have Homebrew installed on your system, the ArrayFire installer will ask you do to so.</p>

<p>Simply<ahref="http://ci.arrayfire.org/userContent/download/">download</a> the ArrayFire installer and double-click it to carry out the installation.</p>

<p>Simply<ahref="http://go.arrayfire.com/l/37882/2015-03-31/mmhqy">download</a> the ArrayFire installer and double-click it to carry out the installation.</p>

<p>ArrayFire can also be installed through Homebrew directly using<code>brew install arrayfire</code>; however, it will not include MKL acceleration of linear algebra functions.</p>

<h2>Testing installation</h2>

<p>After ArrayFire is installed, you can build the example programs as follows:</p><preclass="fragment">cp -r /usr/local/share/ArrayFire/examples .