Azure Linux multi-version installation

2025-05-27

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Applies to Linux

Caution

Ensure that the Installation prerequisites are met before installing.

Registering ROCm repositories

AZL

# Note: There is NO trailing .0 in the patch version for repositories
for ver in 6.4.1 6.4; do
sudo tee --append /etc/yum.repos.d/rocm.repo <<EOF
[ROCm-$ver]
name=ROCm$ver
baseurl=https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/azurelinux3/$ver/main/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/rocm.gpg.key
EOF
sudo tdnf 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 6.4.1 6.4.0; do
      sudo tdnf 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).

Complete the Post-installation instructions.

Tip

For a single-version installation of the latest ROCm version on AZL, use the steps in Registering ROCm repositories and Installing.

Uninstalling

Uninstall specific meta packages

# Note: There IS a trailing .0 in the patch version for packages
for ver in 6.4.1 6.4.0; do
   sudo tdnf remove rocm$ver
done

Uninstall ROCm packages

# Note: There IS a trailing .0 in the patch version for packages
for ver in 6.4.1 6.4.0; do
   sudo tdnf remove rocm-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/tdnf
sudo tdnf clean all

# Restart the system
sudo reboot