Installation with install script

Installation with install script#

Applies to Linux and Windows

2024-01-19

10 min read time

Prior to beginning, please ensure you have the prerequisites installed.

Warning

ROCm currently doesn’t support integrated graphics. Should your system have an AMD IGP installed, disable it in the BIOS prior to using ROCm. If the driver can enumerate the IGP, the ROCm runtime may crash the system, even if told to omit it via HIP_VISIBLE_DEVICES.

Use cases#

Instead of installing individual applications or libraries the installer script groups packages into specific use cases, matching typical workflows and runtimes.

To display a list of available use cases execute the command:

sudo amdgpu-install --list-usecase

The available use-cases will be printed in a format similar to the example output below.

If --usecase option is not present, the default selection is "graphics,opencl,hip"

Available use cases:
rocm(for users and developers requiring full ROCm stack)
- OpenCL (ROCr/KFD based) runtime
- HIP runtimes
- Machine learning framework
- All ROCm libraries and applications
- ROCm Compiler and device libraries
- ROCr runtime and thunk
lrt(for users of applications requiring ROCm runtime)
- ROCm Compiler and device libraries
- ROCr runtime and thunk
opencl(for users of applications requiring OpenCL on Vega or
later products)
- ROCr based OpenCL
- ROCm Language runtime

openclsdk (for application developers requiring ROCr based OpenCL)
- ROCr based OpenCL
- ROCm Language runtime
- development and SDK files for ROCr based OpenCL

hip(for users of HIP runtime on AMD products)
- HIP runtimes
hiplibsdk (for application developers requiring HIP on AMD products)
- HIP runtimes
- ROCm math libraries
- HIP development libraries

To install use cases specific to your requirements, use the installer amdgpu-install as follows:

To install a single use case add it with the --usecase option:
```
sudo amdgpu-install --usecase=rocm
```
For multiple use cases separate them with commas:
```
sudo amdgpu-install --usecase=hiplibsdk,rocm
```
For graphical workloads using the open-source driver add graphics. For example:
```
sudo amdgpu-install --usecase=graphics,rocm
```
For graphical workloads using the proprietary driver add graphics. For example:
```
sudo amdgpu-install --usecase=workstation,rocm
```

Single-version ROCm Installation#

By default (without the --rocmrelease option) the installer script will install packages in the single-version layout.

Multi-version ROCm Installation#

For the multi-version ROCm installation you must use the installer script from the latest release of ROCm that you wish to install.

Example: If you want to install ROCm releases 5.5.3, 5.6.1 and 5.7 simultaneously, you are required to download the installer from the latest ROCm release 5.7.

Add Required Repositories#

You must add the ROCm repositories manually for all ROCm releases you want to install except the latest one. The amdgpu-install script automatically adds the required repositories for the latest release.

Run the following commands based on your distribution to add the repositories:

Ubuntu

Ubuntu 20.04

for ver in 5.5.3 5.6.1 5.7; do
echo "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/rocm-keyring.gpg] https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/apt/$ver focal main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rocm.list
done
echo -e 'Package: *\nPin: release o=repo.radeon.com\nPin-Priority: 600' | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/rocm-pin-600
sudo apt update

Ubuntu 22.04

for ver in 5.5.3 5.6.1 5.7; do
echo "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/rocm-keyring.gpg] https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/apt/$ver jammy main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rocm.list
done
echo -e 'Package: *\nPin: release o=repo.radeon.com\nPin-Priority: 600' | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/rocm-pin-600
sudo apt update

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

RHEL 8

for ver in 5.5.3 5.6.1 5.7; do
sudo tee --append /etc/yum.repos.d/rocm.repo <<EOF
[ROCm-$ver]
name=ROCm$ver
baseurl=https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/rhel8/$ver/main
enabled=1
priority=50
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/rocm.gpg.key
EOF
done
sudo yum clean all

RHEL 9

for ver in 5.5.3 5.6.1 5.7; do
sudo tee --append /etc/yum.repos.d/rocm.repo <<EOF
[ROCm-$ver]
name=ROCm$ver
baseurl=https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/rhel9/$ver/main
enabled=1
priority=50
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/rocm.gpg.key
EOF
done
sudo yum clean all

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

for ver in 5.5.3 5.6.1 5.7; do
sudo tee --append /etc/zypp/repos.d/rocm.repo <<EOF
name=rocm
baseurl=https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/zyp/$ver/main
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/rocm.gpg.key
EOF
done
sudo zypper ref

Install packages#

Use the installer script as given below:

sudo amdgpu-install --usecase=rocm --rocmrelease=<release-number-1>
sudo amdgpu-install --usecase=rocm --rocmrelease=<release-number-2>
sudo amdgpu-install --usecase=rocm --rocmrelease=<release-number-3>

Following are examples of ROCm multi-version installation. The kernel-mode driver, associated with the ROCm release 5.7, will be installed as its latest release in the list.

sudo amdgpu-install --usecase=rocm --rocmrelease=5.7
sudo amdgpu-install --usecase=rocm --rocmrelease=5.6.1
sudo amdgpu-install --usecase=rocm --rocmrelease=5.5.3

Additional options#

Unattended installation#

Adding -y as a parameter to amdgpu-install skips user prompts (for automation). Example: amdgpu-install -y --usecase=rocm

Skipping kernel mode driver installation#

The installer script tries to install the kernel mode driver along with the requested use cases. This might be unnecessary as in the case of docker containers or you may wish to keep a specific version when using multi-version installation, and not have the last installed version overwrite the kernel mode driver.

To skip the installation of the kernel-mode driver add the --no-dkms option when calling the installer script.