How to Upgrade the CANN Software Package on the Orange Pi AIPro Development Board

The Orange Pi AIPro development board is a high-performance AI development board carefully crafted by Orange Pi and Ascend. Developers can quickly build AI applications and services based on the Ascend CANN software stack capabilities, achieving various data analysis and inference calculations such as images and videos. However, the pre-installed image on the development board uses the CANN commercial release version. So how can developers experience the latest software features? In this issue, we will introduce: How to upgrade the CANN software package on the Orange Pi AIPro development board.

Step 1: Log in to the Orange Pi AIPro development board..

Step 2: Use the CTRL+ALT+T shortcut or click the button at the bottom of the interface to open the terminal console.

Step 3: Switch to the root user. Root user password: Mind@123.

(base)HwHiAiUser@orangepiaipro:~$ su Password: (base) root@orangepiaipro:/home/HwHiAiUser#

Step 4: Delete the CANN software package installed in the image to free up disk space and prevent insufficient disk space for installing the new CANN software package.

(base) root@orangepiaipro:/home/HwHiAiUser# cd /usr/local/Ascend/ascend-toolkit/ (base) root@orangepiaipro:/usr/local/Ascend/ascend-toolkit# rm -rf *

Step 5: Open the browser in the Orange Pi AIPro and visit “Ascend Community – Community Edition Resource Download Center” (https://www.hiascend.com/developer/download/community/result?module=cann). It is recommended to download the latest version of the cann-toolkit software package.

Step 6: Enter the CANN software package download directory. The default download directory for the Orange Pi AIPro browser is: /home/HwHiAiUser/Downloads.

(base) root@orangepiaipro: /usr/local/Ascend/ascend-toolkit# cd /home/HwHiAiUser/Downloads

Step 7: Grant execution permissions to the CANN software package.

(base) root@orangepiaipro: /home/HwHiAiUser/Downloads # chmod +x ./Ascend-cann-toolkit-8.0.RC1.alpha003_linux-aarch64.run

Step 8: Install the CANN software package.

(base) root@orangepiaipro: /home/HwHiAiUser/Downloads # /Ascend-cann-toolkit-8.0.RC1.alpha003_linux-aarch64.run --install

When the following prompt appears during installation, enter Y and press Enter to continue the installation:

The installation was successful as shown in the following figure:

Step 9: Configure the environment variables.

source /usr/local/Ascend/ascend-toolkit/set_env.sh

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