Quick start installation guide — ROCm installation (Linux) (original) (raw)

Quick start installation guide#

2025-03-27

10 min read time

Applies to Linux

This topic provides basic installation instructions for ROCm on Linux using your distribution’s native package manager. Before you begin, you should confirm your kernel version matches the ROCm system requirements.

Once you do, review your required installation instructions by selecting your operating system and version, and then run the provided commands in your terminal. The commands include the installation of the prerequisites, along with installing ROCm.

For more in-depth installation instructions, refer to ROCm on Linux detailed installation overview.

Note

If you’re using ROCm with AMD Radeon or Radeon Pro GPUs for graphics workloads, see the Use ROCm on Radeon GPU documentation for installation instructions .

ROCm installation#

Ubuntu

24.04

wget https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu-install/6.4.1/ubuntu/noble/amdgpu-install_6.4.60401-1_all.deb sudo apt install ./amdgpu-install_6.4.60401-1_all.deb sudo apt update sudo apt install python3-setuptools python3-wheel sudo usermod -a -G render,video $LOGNAME # Add the current user to the render and video groups sudo apt install rocm

22.04

wget https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu-install/6.4.1/ubuntu/jammy/amdgpu-install_6.4.60401-1_all.deb sudo apt install ./amdgpu-install_6.4.60401-1_all.deb sudo apt update sudo apt install python3-setuptools python3-wheel sudo usermod -a -G render,video $LOGNAME # Add the current user to the render and video groups sudo apt install rocm

Debian

wget https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu-install/6.4.1/ubuntu/jammy/amdgpu-install_6.4.60401-1_all.deb sudo apt install ./amdgpu-install_6.4.60401-1_all.deb sudo apt update sudo apt install -y python3-setuptools python3-wheel sudo usermod -a -G render,video $LOGNAME # Add the current user to the render and video groups sudo apt install rocm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

9.6

Before installing ROCm on RHEL, register your Enterprise Linux and update the OS installation.

sudo dnf install https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu-install/6.4.1/rhel/9.6/amdgpu-install-6.4.60401-1.el9.noarch.rpm sudo dnf clean all wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm sudo rpm -ivh epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm sudo dnf install dnf-plugin-config-manager sudo crb enable sudo dnf install python3-setuptools python3-wheel sudo usermod -a -G render,video $LOGNAME # Add the current user to the render and video groups sudo dnf install rocm

9.5

Before installing ROCm on RHEL, register your Enterprise Linux and update the OS installation.

sudo dnf install https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu-install/6.4.1/rhel/9.5/amdgpu-install-6.4.60401-1.el9.noarch.rpm sudo dnf clean all wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm sudo rpm -ivh epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm sudo dnf install dnf-plugin-config-manager sudo crb enable sudo dnf install python3-setuptools python3-wheel sudo usermod -a -G render,video $LOGNAME # Add the current user to the render and video groups sudo dnf install rocm

9.4

Before installing ROCm on RHEL, register your Enterprise Linux and update the OS installation.

sudo dnf install https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu-install/6.4.1/rhel/9.4/amdgpu-install-6.4.60401-1.el9.noarch.rpm sudo dnf clean all wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm sudo rpm -ivh epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm sudo dnf install dnf-plugin-config-manager sudo crb enable sudo dnf install python3-setuptools python3-wheel sudo usermod -a -G render,video $LOGNAME # Add the current user to the render and video groups sudo dnf install rocm

8.10

Before installing ROCm on RHEL, register your Enterprise Linux and update the OS installation.

sudo dnf install https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu-install/6.4.1/rhel/8.10/amdgpu-install-6.4.60401-1.el8.noarch.rpm sudo dnf clean all wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm sudo rpm -ivh epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm sudo dnf install dnf-plugin-config-manager sudo crb enable sudo dnf install python3-setuptools python3-wheel sudo usermod -a -G render,video $LOGNAME # Add the current user to the render and video groups sudo dnf install rocm

Oracle Linux

Before installing ROCm on OL, update the OS installation.

sudo dnf install https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu-install/6.4.1/el/9.5/amdgpu-install-6.4.60401-1.el9.noarch.rpm sudo dnf clean all wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm sudo rpm -ivh epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm sudo dnf install dnf-plugin-config-manager sudo crb enable sudo dnf install python3-setuptools python3-wheel sudo usermod -a -G render,video $LOGNAME # Add the current user to the render and video groups sudo dnf install rocm

Before installing ROCm on OL, update the OS installation.

sudo dnf install https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu-install/6.4.1/el/8.10/amdgpu-install-6.4.60401-1.el8.noarch.rpm sudo dnf clean all wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm sudo rpm -ivh epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm sudo dnf install dnf-plugin-config-manager sudo crb enable sudo dnf install python3-setuptools python3-wheel sudo usermod -a -G render,video $LOGNAME # Add the current user to the render and video groups sudo dnf install rocm

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

15.6

Before installing ROCm on SLES, register your Enterprise Linux update the OS installation.

sudo SUSEConnect -p sle-module-desktop-applications/15.6/x86_64 sudo SUSEConnect -p sle-module-development-tools/15.6/x86_64 sudo SUSEConnect -p PackageHub/15.6/x86_64 sudo zypper install zypper sudo zypper --no-gpg-checks install https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu-install/6.4.1/sle/15.6/amdgpu-install-6.4.60401-1.noarch.rpm sudo zypper --gpg-auto-import-keys refresh sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:languages:perl/15.6/devel:languages:perl.repo sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Education/15.6/Education.repo sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/science/SLE_15_SP5/science.repo sudo zypper --gpg-auto-import-keys refresh sudo zypper install python3-setuptools python3-wheel sudo usermod -a -G render,video $LOGNAME # Add the current user to the render and video groups sudo zypper install rocm

Azure Linux

3.0

sudo tdnf install dnf-plugin-config-manager sudo curl -o /etc/yum.repos.d/azurelinux-extended.repo https://packages.microsoft.com/azurelinux/3.0/prod/extended/x86_64/config.repo sudo tdnf install python3-setuptools python3-wheel sudo usermod -a -G render,video $LOGNAME # Add the current user to the render and video groups sudo tdnf install https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu-install/6.4.1/azurelinux/3.0/amdgpu-install-6.4.60401-1.azl3.noarch.rpm --nogpgcheck sudo tdnf clean all sudo tdnf install rocm

AMDGPU driver installation#

Ubuntu

24.04

wget https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu-install/6.4.1/ubuntu/noble/amdgpu-install_6.4.60401-1_all.deb sudo apt install ./amdgpu-install_6.4.60401-1_all.deb sudo apt update sudo apt install "linux-headers-$(uname -r)" "linux-modules-extra-$(uname -r)" sudo apt install amdgpu-dkms

22.04

wget https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu-install/6.4.1/ubuntu/jammy/amdgpu-install_6.4.60401-1_all.deb sudo apt install ./amdgpu-install_6.4.60401-1_all.deb sudo apt update sudo apt install "linux-headers-$(uname -r)" "linux-modules-extra-$(uname -r)" sudo apt install amdgpu-dkms

Debian

wget https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu-install/6.4.1/ubuntu/jammy/amdgpu-install_6.4.60401-1_all.deb sudo apt install ./amdgpu-install_6.4.60401-1_all.deb sudo apt update sudo apt install "linux-headers-$(uname -r)" sudo apt install amdgpu-dkms

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

9.6

Before installing AMDGPU driver on RHEL, register your Enterprise Linux and update the OS installation.

sudo dnf install https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu-install/6.4.1/rhel/9.6/amdgpu-install-6.4.60401-1.el9.noarch.rpm sudo dnf clean all sudo dnf install "kernel-headers-$(uname -r)" "kernel-devel-$(uname -r)" "kernel-devel-matched-$(uname -r)" sudo dnf install amdgpu-dkms

9.5

Before installing AMDGPU driver on RHEL, register your Enterprise Linux and update the OS installation.

sudo dnf install https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu-install/6.4.1/rhel/9.5/amdgpu-install-6.4.60401-1.el9.noarch.rpm sudo dnf clean all sudo dnf install "kernel-headers-$(uname -r)" "kernel-devel-$(uname -r)" "kernel-devel-matched-$(uname -r)" sudo dnf install amdgpu-dkms

9.4

Before installing AMDGPU driver on RHEL, register your Enterprise Linux and update the OS installation.

sudo dnf install https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu-install/6.4.1/rhel/9.4/amdgpu-install-6.4.60401-1.el9.noarch.rpm sudo dnf clean all sudo dnf install "kernel-headers-$(uname -r)" "kernel-devel-$(uname -r)" "kernel-devel-matched-$(uname -r)" sudo dnf install amdgpu-dkms

8.10

Before installing AMDGPU driver on RHEL, register your Enterprise Linux and update the OS installation.

sudo dnf install https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu-install/6.4.1/rhel/8.10/amdgpu-install-6.4.60401-1.el8.noarch.rpm sudo dnf clean all sudo dnf install "kernel-headers-$(uname -r)" "kernel-devel-$(uname -r)" sudo dnf install amdgpu-dkms

Oracle Linux

Before installing AMDGPU driver on OL, update the OS installation.

sudo dnf install https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu-install/6.4.1/el/9.5/amdgpu-install-6.4.60401-1.el9.noarch.rpm sudo dnf clean all sudo dnf install "kernel-uek-devel-$(uname -r)" sudo dnf install amdgpu-dkms

Before installing AMDGPU driver on OL, update the OS installation.

sudo dnf install https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu-install/6.4.1/el/8.10/amdgpu-install-6.4.60401-1.el8.noarch.rpm sudo dnf clean all sudo dnf install "kernel-uek-devel-$(uname -r)" sudo dnf install amdgpu-dkms

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

15.6

Before installing AMDGPU driver on SLES, register your Enterprise Linux and update the OS installation.

Azure Linux

3.0

sudo tdnf install "kernel-headers-$(uname -r)" "kernel-devel-$(uname -r)" sudo tdnf install azurelinux-repos-amd sudo tdnf repolist --refresh sudo tdnf install amdgpu

Important

To apply all settings, reboot your system.

After completing the installation, review the Post-installation instructions. If you have issues with your installation, see Troubleshooting.