SUSE Linux Enterprise Server multi-version installation

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server multi-version installation#

2025-08-28

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Applies to Linux

Caution

Ensure that the Installation prerequisites are met before installing.

Registering ROCm repositories#

SLES 15.7

# 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/zypp/repos.d/rocm.repo <<EOF
[rocm-$ver]
name=ROCm $ver repository
baseurl=https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/zyp/$ver/main
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/rocm.gpg.key
EOF
done
sudo zypper refresh

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 zypper --gpg-auto-import-keys 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 SLES, follow the steps in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 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 zypper 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 zypper remove rocm-core$ver amdgpu-core$ver
done

Remove ROCm repositories#

# Remove ROCm repositories
# Note: There is NO trailing .0 in the patch version for repositories
for ver 7.0 6.4.3; do
   sudo zypper removerepo "rocm-$ver"
done

# Clear cache and clean system
sudo zypper clean --all
sudo zypper refresh

Important

To apply all settings, reboot your system.