Oracle Linux multi-version installation

Oracle Linux multi-version installation#

2025-08-22

3 min read time

Applies to Linux

Caution

Ensure that the Installation prerequisites are met before installing.

Register ROCm repositories#

OL 9.6

# Note: There is NO trailing .0 in the patch version for repositories
for ver in 7.0 6.4.3; do
sudo tee --append /etc/yum.repos.d/rocm.repo <<EOF
[rocm-$ver]
name=ROCm $ver repository
baseurl=https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/el9/$ver/main
enabled=1
priority=50
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/rocm.gpg.key
EOF
done
sudo dnf clean all

OL 8.10

# Note: There is NO trailing .0 in the patch version for repositories
for ver in 7.0 6.4.3; do
sudo tee --append /etc/yum.repos.d/rocm.repo <<EOF
[rocm-$ver]
name=ROCm $ver repository
baseurl=https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/el8/$ver/main
enabled=1
priority=50
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/rocm.gpg.key
EOF
done
sudo dnf clean all

Installing#

Before proceeding with a multi-version ROCm installation, you must remove ROCm packages that were previously installed from a single-version installation to avoid conflicts.

# Note: There IS a trailing .0 in the patch version for packages
for ver in 7.0.0 6.4.3; do
      sudo dnf install rocm$ver
done

Note

For versions earlier than ROCm 6.0.0, use rocm-hip-sdk instead of rocm (for example, rocm-hip-sdk5.7.1).

Post-installation#

Complete the Post-installation instructions.

Tip

For a single-version installation of the latest ROCm version on OL, follow the steps in Oracle Linux native installation in the ROCm documentation.

Uninstalling#

Uninstall specific meta packages#

# Note: There IS a trailing .0 in the patch version for packages
for ver in 7.0.0 6.4.3; do
   sudo dnf remove rocm$ver
done

Uninstall ROCm packages#

# Note: There IS a trailing .0 in the patch version for packages
for ver in 7.0.0 6.4.3; do
   sudo dnf remove rocm-core$ver amdgpu-core$ver
done

Remove ROCm repositories#

# Remove ROCm repositories
sudo rm /etc/yum.repos.d/rocm.repo*

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

Important

To apply all settings, reboot your system.