There are four simple steps involved in the installation of the AMDGPU-Pro Driver: Download, Extract, Install and Configure.  The instructions to perform the installation are intended for an Linspire installation and should take less than 10 minutes to complete.  Before installing the driver, a quick note on how to check if your system already has AMDGPU-PRO installed.  In addition, the recommended best practice is to bring the system up-to-date before starting the driver installation, with:

sudo apt update
sudo apt dist-upgrade
sudo reboot

System Check
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The easiest way to find out if you have AMDGPU-Pro already installed on your Linspire System is to query the Debian package manager. 

Using the following command at a terminal will provide you with the version of the AMDGPU-Pro stack on your system, or inform you that there are no packages found:

dpkg -l amdgpu-pro

Download
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You can download the AMDGPU-Pro driver from here

https://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ubuntu/amdgpu-pro-17.40-492261.tar.xz

Or go to the driver download page and choose the Linux for your graphics card

https://support.amd.com/en-us/download

Extract
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After the archive is downloaded, extract the contents to a temporary location from which you can install it. The example below assumes you have downloaded the archive to /tmp and will extract to the same location. If your file was downloaded into the ~/Downloads/ folder by default, you can also extract and install from there, and afterwards you can remove the install files. 

(Notes: Please replace the "NNNNNN" in the following command line with the actual build number of the downloaded file)

cd /tmp
tar -Jxvf amdgpu-pro-17.30-NNNNNN.tar.xz

Install
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Once the archive is expanded on the local machine, run the included script (amdgpu-pro-install) to install the graphics stack.  During the installation you will be required to provide sudo access, and also to provide two confirmations to: 

Install the packages, and
Allow installation of "unverified" packages from the AMDGPU-PRO archive.

The script will use the package manager to install the components of the graphics stack, with a short delay during the DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module Support) installation. From the directory where you extracted the archive, issue the following command:

(Notes: Please replace the "NNNNNN" in the following command line with the actual build number of the downloaded file.)

cd amdgpu-pro-17.30-NNNNNN
./amdgpu-pro-install –y
sudo reboot 

Configure
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Ensure that your user account is a member of the "video" group prior to using the vulkan driver. You can find which groups you are a member of with the following command:

groups
           
To add yourself to the video group you will need the sudo password and can use the following command:

sudo usermod -a -G video $LOGNAME 

You will need to log out and in again to activate this change.
 
Uninstalling the AMD GPU-PRO Driver 
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If for any reason you wish to remove the AMDGPU-PRO graphics stack you can do this using the uninstallation script which was part of the installation and is present in your path. From the command prompt enter the following command:

amdgpu-pro-uninstall

Installing the Optional ROCm Component
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This AMDGPU-Pro driver package incorporates the ROCm component that can be optionally installed for running Compute/OpenCL applications.  You can install the component by issuing the following command:

sudo apt install -y rocm-amdgpu-pro

Configuring the Optional ROCm Component
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The LLVM_BIN environment variable needs to be set prior to running ROCm applications.

To set it temporarily when running an individual ROCm command, such as clinfo, use:

env LLVM_BIN=/opt/amdgpu-pro/bin /opt/amdgpu-pro/bin/clinfo

To set it permanently for all bash and other sh-like shell users, you can use the following command:

echo 'export LLVM_BIN=/opt/amdgpu-pro/bin' | sudo tee /etc/profile.d/amdgpu-pro.sh

See the Linspire Environment Variables Community Help for more information.

To set it permanently for all csh users, you can use the following command:

echo 'setenv LLVM_BIN /opt/amdgpu-pro/bin' | sudo tee /etc/profile.d/amdgpu-pro.csh