Package manager integration

2025-05-14

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Applies to Linux

This section provides information about the required meta-packages for the following AMD ROCm programming models:

• Heterogeneous-Computing Interface for Portability (HIP)

• OpenCL™

• OpenMP™

ROCm package naming conventions

A meta-package is a grouping of related packages and dependencies used to support a specific use case.

Example: Running HIP applications

All meta-packages exist in both versioned and non-versioned forms.

• Non-versioned packages: For a single-version installation of the ROCm stack

• Versioned packages: For multi-version installations of the ROCm stack

The figure above demonstrates the single and multi-version ROCm packages’ naming structure, including examples for various Linux distributions. See terms below:

Module - It is the part of the package that represents the name of the ROCm component.

Example: The examples mentioned in the image represent the ROCm HIP module.

Module version - It is the version of the library released in that package. It should increase with a newer release.

Release version - It shows the ROCm release version when the package was released.

Example: 50400 points to the ROCm 5.4.0 release.

Build id - It represents the build number for that release.

Arch - It shows the architecture for which the package was created.

Distro - It describes the distribution for which the package was created. It is valid only for rpm packages.

Example: el8 represents RHEL 8.x packages.

Components of ROCm programming models

The figure below demonstrates the high-level layered architecture of ROCm programming models and their meta-packages. All meta-packages are a combination of required packages and libraries.

Note

The preceding figure is for informational purposes only. The individual packages in a meta-package are subject to change. To avoid conflicts, install meta-packages, not individual packages.

Example:

• rocm-hip-runtime is used to deploy on supported machines to execute HIP applications.

• rocm-hip-sdk contains runtime components to deploy and execute HIP applications.

Note

rocm-llvm is not a meta-package; it’s a single package that installs the ROCm Clang compiler files.

Package	Description
rocm	All ROCm core packages, tools, and libraries.
rocm-language-runtime	The ROCm runtime.
rocm-developer-tools	Debug and profile HIP applications.
rocm-hip-runtime	Run HIP applications writen for the AMD platform.
rocm-hip-runtime-devel	Develop applications on HIP or port from CUDA.
rocm-opencl-runtime	Run OpenCL-based applications on the AMD platform.
rocm-opencl-sdk	Develop OpenCL-based applications for the AMD platform.
rocm-hip-libraries	HIP libraries optimized for the AMD platform.
rocm-hip-sdk	Develop or port HIP applications and libraries for the AMD platform.
rocm-ml-libraries	Key machine learning libraries. Includes MIOpen.
rocm-ml-sdk	Develop and run machine learning applications for AMD.
rocm-openmp-runtime	Run OpenMP-based applications on the AMD platform.
rocm-openmp-sdk	Develop OpenMP-based applications for the AMD software.

Packages in ROCm programming models

This section discusses the available meta-packages and their packages. The following table shows the meta-packages and their associated (meta-)packages in a ROCm programming model.

Note

rocm-utils is a legacy meta-package that includes rocminfo, rocm-cmake, and rocm-core. Other meta-packages manage the installation of these components.

Meta package	Associated packages
rocm	Meta packages: rocm-developer-tools, rocm-ml-sdk, rocm-opencl-sdk, rocm-openmp-sdk Packages: migraphx, migraphx-devel, mivisionx, rocm-core, rpp-devel
rocm-developer-tools	Meta packages: rocm-language-runtime Packages: amd-smi-lib, hsa-amd-aqlprofile, rocm-core, rocm-dbgapi, rocm-debug-agent, rocm-gdb, rocm-smi-lib, rocprofiler, rocprofiler-devel, rocprofiler-compute, rocprofiler-plugins, rocprofiler-register, rocprofiler-sdk, rocprofiler-sdk-roctx, rocprofiler-systems, roctracer, roctracer-devel
rocm-ml-sdk	Meta packages: rocm-hip-sdk, rocm-ml-libraries Packages: miopen-hip-devel, rocm-core
rocm-ml-libraries	Meta packages: rocm-hip-libraries Packages: miopen-hip, rocm-core, rocm-llvm
rocm-hip-sdk	Meta packages: rocm-hip-libraries, rocm-hip-runtime-devel Packages: composablekernel-devel, hipblas-common-devel, hipblas-devel, hipblaslt-devel, hipcub-devel, hipfft-devel, hipfort-devel, hiprand-devel, hipsolver-devel, hipsparse-devel, hipsparselt-devel, hiptensor-devel, rccl-devel, rocalution-devel, rocblas-devel, rocfft-devel, rocm-core, rocprim-devel, rocrand-devel, rocsolver-devel, rocsparse-devel, rocthrust-devel, rocwmma-devel
rocm-hip-libraries	Meta packages: rocm-hip-runtime Packages: hipblas, hipblaslt, hipfft, hiprand, hipsolver, hipsparse, hipsparselt, hiptensor, rccl, rocalution, rocblas, rocfft, rocm-core, rocm-smi-lib, rocrand, rocsolver, rocsparse
rocm-hip-runtime-devel	Meta packages: rocm-hip-runtime Packages: hipcc, hip-doc, hip-devel, hip-samples, hipify-clang, hsa-rocr-devel, rocm-cmake, rocm-core, rocm-device-libs, rocm-llvm
rocm-hip-runtime	Meta packages: rocm-language-runtime Packages: hip-runtime-amd, rocm-core, rocminfo
rocm-language-runtime	Packages: comgr, hsa-rocr, openmp-extras-runtime, rocm-core
rocm-openmp-sdk	Meta packages: rocm-language-runtime Packages: hsa-rocr-devel, openmp-extras-devel, rocm-core, rocm-device-libs, rocm-llvm
rocm-opencl-sdk	Meta packages: rocm-opencl-runtime Packages: hsa-rocr-devel, rocm-core, rocm-opencl-devel
rocm-opencl-runtime	Meta packages: rocm-language-runtime Packages: rocm-core, rocm-opencl