Red Hat Enterprise Linux native installation#

Applies to Linux

2024-01-17

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Register repositories#

Register kernel-mode driver#

RHEL 9.3

sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/amdgpu.repo <<EOF
[amdgpu]
name=amdgpu
baseurl=https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu/6.0/rhel/9.3/main/x86_64/
enabled=1
priority=50
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/rocm.gpg.key
EOF
sudo yum clean all

RHEL 9.2

sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/amdgpu.repo <<EOF
[amdgpu]
name=amdgpu
baseurl=https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu/6.0/rhel/9.2/main/x86_64/
enabled=1
priority=50
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/rocm.gpg.key
EOF
sudo yum clean all

RHEL 8.9

sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/amdgpu.repo <<EOF
[amdgpu]
name=amdgpu
baseurl=https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu/6.0/rhel/8.9/main/x86_64/
enabled=1
priority=50
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/rocm.gpg.key
EOF
sudo yum clean all

RHEL 8.8

sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/amdgpu.repo <<EOF
[amdgpu]
name=amdgpu
baseurl=https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu/6.0/rhel/8.8/main/x86_64/
enabled=1
priority=50
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/rocm.gpg.key
EOF
sudo yum clean all

Register ROCm packages#

RHEL 9

sudo tee --append /etc/yum.repos.d/rocm.repo <<EOF
[ROCm-6.0]
name=ROCm6.0
baseurl=https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/rhel9/6.0/main
enabled=1
priority=50
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/rocm.gpg.key
EOF

sudo yum clean all

RHEL 8

sudo tee --append /etc/yum.repos.d/rocm.repo <<EOF
[ROCm-6.0]
name=ROCm6.0
baseurl=https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/rhel8/6.0/main
enabled=1
priority=50
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/rocm.gpg.key
EOF

sudo yum clean all

Installation#

Install kernel driver#

sudo yum install amdgpu-dkms
sudo reboot

Install ROCm packages#

sudo yum install rocm

Complete the Post-installation instructions.

Upgrade#

To upgrade an existing ROCm installation to a newer version, follow the steps in Register repositories and Installation. After upgrading the kernel driver, it may also upgrade the GPU firmware which requires a system reboot to take effect.

Uninstall#

Uninstall specific meta packages#

# sudo apt autoremove <package-name>
# For example:
sudo yum remove rocm-hip-sdk
# Or for version specific packages:
sudo yum remove rocm-hip-sdk6.0

Uninstall ROCm packages#

sudo yum remove rocm-core
# Or for version specific packages:
sudo yum remove rocm-core6.0

Uninstall kernel-mode driver#

sudo yum remove  amdgpu-dkms

Remove ROCm and AMDGPU repositories#

# Remove the repositories.
sudo rm /etc/yum.repos.d/rocm.list
sudo rm /etc/yum.repos.d/amdgpu.list

# Clear the cache and clean the system.
sudo rm -rf /var/cache/yum
sudo yum clean all

# Restart the system.
sudo reboot

Red Hat Enterprise Linux native installation

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