Uploading Software Packages

Upload the Ascend-cann-amct_{software version}_linux-{arch}.tar.gz package to any directory on the Linux server as the AMCT installation user. In this example, the package is uploaded to $HOME/amct/.

Decompress the AMCT package:

tar -zxvf Ascend-cann-amct-{software version}_linux-{arch}.tar.gz

Find the following extracted packages.

**Table 1** Extracted parts of the AMCT package
Level-1 Directory	Level-2 Directory	Description	Use and Precaution
amct_acl	Software package to be installed when the compression function of AMCT is used for ATC, AOE, and graph development.
amct_caffe/	Caffe AMCT directory		The Atlas A2 training product/Atlas A2 inference product does not support the Caffe framework. The Atlas A3 training product/Atlas A3 inference product does not support the Caffe framework. The Atlas 350 Accelerator Card does not support the Caffe framework. For details, see AMCT (Caffe). A Caffe environment must be set up. Perform inference on a quantized model in the inference environment powered by the AI processor.
	amct_caffe-{version}-py3-none-linux_{arch}.whl	Caffe AMCT package
	caffe_patch.tar.gz	Caffe patch package
amct_tf/	TensorFlow AMCT directory
	amct_tensorflow-{version}-py3-none-linux_{arch}.tar.gz	TensorFlow AMCT package, which is installed from source code	amct_tensorflow and amct_tensorflow_ascend are mutually exclusive. For details, see AMCT (TensorFlow). A TensorFlow environment must be set up. Perform inference on a quantized model in the inference environment powered by the AI processor.
	amct_tensorflow_ascend-{version}-py3-none-linux_{arch}.tar.gz	TF Adapter AMCT package, which is installed from source code	amct_tensorflow and amct_tensorflow_ascend are mutually exclusive. Only the Atlas training product supports the features in this directory. For details, see AMCT (TensorFlow, Ascend). A TensorFlow environment must be set up. Online inference can be performed on a quantized model based on the AI processor in the online inference environment powered by NPUs.
amct_pytorch/	PyTorch AMCT directory		For details, see AMCT (PyTorch). A PyTorch environment must be set up. Perform inference on a quantized model in the inference environment powered by the AI processor.
amct_pytorch/	amct_pytorch-{version}-py3-none-linux_{arch}.tar.gz	PyTorch AMCT source package
amct_onnx/	ONNX AMCT directory		For details, see AMCT (ONNX). An ONNX Runtime environment must be set up. Perform inference on a quantized model in the inference environment powered by the AI processor.
	amct_onnx-{version}-py3-none-linux_{arch}.whl	ONNX AMCT package
	amct_onnx_op.tar.gz	ONNX Runtime AMCT custom operator package

{version} indicates the AMCT version. {software version} indicates the software version. {arch} indicates the OS architecture.

Parent topic: Installation Preparations