Package details

Package details#

2025-06-24

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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

ROCm Release Package Naming

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.

ROCm meta packages

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.

ROCm installation can be tailored to your requirements using one more combinations of ROCm meta packages:

ROCm runtime packages#

Meta package

Description

Legacy use case [1]

rocm

All ROCm core packages, tools, and libraries.

rocm

rocm-language-runtime

ROCm runtime environment for running applications on the AMD platform.

lrt

rocm-hip-runtime

Run HIP applications written for the AMD platform.

hip

rocm-hip-libraries

HIP libraries optimized for the AMD platform.

Legacy use case does not exist.

rocm-opencl-runtime

Run OpenCL-based applications on the AMD platform.

opencl

rocm-ml-libraries

Key machine learning libraries. Includes MIOpen.

mllib

Other packages

amdgpu-lib

For users of graphics applications which require the open source Mesa 3D graphics and multimedia libraries. This package is primarily used for Radeon GPUs.

graphics

hsa-runtime-rocr4wsl-amdgpu

For users of ROCm in a Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) context. This package is only supported for Ubuntu.

wsl

ROCm developer packages#

Meta package

Description

Legacy use case [1]

rocm-developer-tools

Debug and profile HIP applications.

rocmdevtools

rocm-hip-runtime-devel

Develop applications on HIP or port from CUDA.

Legacy use case does not exist.

rocm-hip-sdk

Develop or port HIP applications and libraries for the AMD platform.

hiplibsdk

rocm-opencl-sdk

Develop OpenCL-based applications for the AMD platform.

openclsdk

rocm-openmp-sdk

Develop OpenMP-based applications for the AMD software.

openmpsdk

rocm-ml-sdk

Develop and run machine learning applications for AMD.

mlsdk

Footnotes

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.

Note

Some meta packages and dependencies in the tables below have names ending with -dev, as they are based on Ubuntu. On RPM-based systems like RHEL, these packages use a different naming convention and typically end with -devel instead.

ROCm runtime packages#

Meta package

Associated meta packages or packages

rocm

Meta packages: rocm-developer-tools, rocm-ml-sdk, rocm-opencl-sdk, rocm-openmp-sdk

Packages: rocm-utils, mivisionx, migraphx, rpp, rocm-core, migraphx-dev, mivisionx-dev, rpp-dev

rocm-language-runtime

Packages: comgr, hsa-rocr, rocm-core, openmp-extras-runtime

rocm-hip-runtime

Meta packages: rocm-language-runtime

Packages: hip-runtime-amd, rocm-core, rocminfo

rocm-hip-libraries

Meta packages: rocm-hip-runtime

Packages: rocm-core, rocm-smi-lib, hipblas, hipblaslt, hipfft, hipsparse, hipsolver, hiptensor, rccl, rocalution, rocblas, rocfft, rocrand, hiprand, rocsolver, rocsparse, hipsparselt

rocm-opencl-runtime

Meta packages: rocm-language-runtime

Packages: rocm-core, rocm-opencl

rocm-ml-libraries

Meta packages: rocm-hip-libraries

Packages: miopen-hip, half, rocm-core, rocm-llvm

ROCm developer packages#

Meta package

Associated meta packages or packages

rocm-developer-tools

Meta packages: rocm-language-runtime

Packages: amd-smi-lib, rocm-core, rocm-dbgapi, rocm-debug-agent, rocm-gdb, hsa-amd-aqlprofile, rocm-smi-lib, rocprofiler-register, rocprofiler, rocprofiler-plugins, roctracer, rocprofiler-sdk, rocprofiler-sdk-roctx, rocprofiler-compute, rocprofiler-systems, rocprofiler-dev, roctracer-dev

rocm-hip-runtime-dev

Meta packages: rocm-hip-runtime

Packages: rocm-core, rocm-device-libs, rocm-cmake, rocm-llvm, hipcc, hipify-clang, hip-doc, hip-samples, hip-dev, hsa-rocr-dev

rocm-hip-sdk

Meta packages: rocm-hip-libraries, rocm-hip-runtime-dev

Packages: rocm-core, composablekernel-dev, hipblas-common-dev, hipblas-dev, hipblaslt-dev, hipcub-dev, hipfft-dev, hipsparse-dev, hipsolver-dev, hipfort-dev, hiptensor-dev, rccl-dev, rocalution-dev, rocblas-dev, rocfft-dev, rocprim-dev, rocrand-dev, hiprand-dev, rocsolver-dev, rocsparse-dev, rocthrust-dev, rocwmma-dev, hipsparselt-dev

rocm-opencl-sdk

Meta packages: rocm-opencl-runtime

Packages: hsa-rocr-dev, rocm-core, rocm-opencl-dev

rocm-openmp-sdk

Meta packages: rocm-language-runtime

Packages: rocm-device-libs, rocm-llvm, rocm-core, hsa-rocr-dev, openmp-extras-dev

rocm-ml-sdk

Meta packages: rocm-hip-sdk

Packages: rocm-ml-libraries, rocm-hip-sdk, miopen-hip-dev, rocm-core