Overview

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This guide provides installation and uninstallation procedures for the AMDGPU stack.

Note

The rest of this document will refer to Radeon™ Software for Linux® as the AMDGPU stack.

Note

Some components, such as OpenCL, are provided by the ROCm stack. For simplicity, this subset of ROCm will be included in the use of the term “AMDGPU stack”. Please see the ROCm documentation for further information on other ROCm components.

Stack Use Cases

There are two major use cases available for installation:

  • Workstation: recommended for use with Radeon Pro graphics products.
  • All-Open: recommended for use with consumer products.
Install Use Case Components
All-Open
  • Base kernel drivers
  • Base accelerated graphics drivers
  • Mesa OpenGL
  • Mesa multimedia
  • OpenCL (optional)
    • ROCr OpenCL stack (supports Vega 10 and later products)
Workstation (Proprietary)
  • Base kernel drivers
  • Base accelerated graphics drivers
  • Mesa multimedia
  • Workstation OpenGL (Proprietary)
  • OpenCL (optional)
    • ROCr OpenCL stack, supports Vega 10 and later products
    • Legacy OpenCL stack (Proprietary), supports legacy products older than Vega 10
  • Pro Vulkan (optional, Proprietary)

You can install a combination of stack components using the amdgpu-install script by appending comma separated selections to --vulkan, --opencl, or --usecase, such as:

$ amdgpu-install --usecase=graphics,opencl

See amdgpu-install -h for more options or amdgpu-install --list-usecase for more available usecases.

Note

In the 21.40 release, amdgpu-install has changed and some options available in previous releases have been removed. amdgpu-pro-install has been dropped, but the following equivalent command can be used instead: amdgpu-install --usecase=workstation --vulkan=pro.

Note

  • When installing the All-Open use case using amdgpu-install script, every component from the All-Open stack will be installed. There is no supported way to install arbitrary combinations of these components when using amdgpu-install but you can use the system package manager to do so.
  • When installing any Proprietary components for the first time, the user will be prompted with the End User License Agreement (“EULA”) and asked to accept. To allow for non-interactive install, the option --accept-eula can be appended to amdgpu-install, but using this option will prevent the proprietary packages or updates from being accessible directly with the system package manager. By using the --accept-eula option, you are confirming that you have read and agreed to be bound by the terms and conditions of the EULA (/usr/share/amdgpu-insall/AMDGPUPROEULA) for use of AMD Proprietary components
  • 32-bit graphics runtime libraries are automatically installed when installation is performed using amdgpu-install script. The addition of the “–no-32” option can be used to exclude these runtime libraries.