[Documentation]: Installation. ( hipcc-nvidia )

[MarkCotch]

Description of errors

This documentation seems to lack proper information about external dependencies for HIP. Specifically around Repositories. I went to install HIP with NVidia. At no point did it specify installation of the Rocm repos.
With Rocm repos installed I am still finding the necessary dependencies missing i.e.:

hip-runtime-nvidia : Depends: hipcc-nvidia but it is not installable

I am unable to find any repository that hosts the "hipcc-nvidia" package. I have checked repositories that I know of at AMD, Radeon, and Nvidia without success.

Attach any links, screenshots, or additional evidence you think will be helpful.

No response

[felixcool200]

I encountered this issue as well.

I am trying to get it to install inside a docker container:

# Use the official ROCm development image
FROM rocm/dev-ubuntu-22.04:latest

# Set environment variables
ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
ENV HIP_PATH=/opt/rocm/hip
ENV CUDA_PATH=/usr/local/cuda
ENV PATH=$HIP_PATH/bin:$CUDA_PATH/bin:$PATH
ENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$CUDA_PATH/lib64:$HIP_PATH/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

# Install necessary packages
RUN apt-get update && \
    apt-get install -y \
        cmake \
        git \
        wget \
        mesa-utils \
        freeglut3-dev \
        libglu1-mesa-dev \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

#Install CUDA
RUN wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2204/x86_64/cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb && \
    sudo dpkg -i cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb

#RUN apt update && \
#    apt install software-properties-common -y && \
#    add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers && \
#    apt install nvidia-driver-535 -y

RUN apt-get update && \
    apt-get install -y \
    cuda \
    nvidia-gds \
    hip-runtime-nvidia \
    hip-dev \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

# Create a working directory
WORKDIR /usr/local/src

# Copy the code to the container
COPY ./ /usr/local/src/MYAPP

# Set the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR environment variable
ENV XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/tmp/xdg
RUN mkdir -p /tmp/xdg && chmod 700 /tmp/xdg

# Compile the HIP program with OpenGL/GLUT support
RUN cd /usr/local/src/MYAPP && \
    /opt/hip/bin/hipcc \
    -o MYAPP \
    -I /usr/local/src/MYAPP/include \
    src/kernels.hip src/main.cpp \
    -lGL -lGLU -lglut -Wall -Werror -O3

# Set the entry point to run the compiled HIP program
ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/local/src/MYAPP/MYAPP"]

[szellmann]

I'm running into the same issue, it seems to me that the dependency chain of the packages is broken and am really rooting for a fix :-)

[ppanchad-amd]

@MarkCotch Internal ticket has been created to fix this issue. Thanks!

[szellmann]

To add to this, the issue seems not to be documentation only, but a broken package dependency on hipcc-nvidia that doesn't seem to exist anymore. This is with a fresh ROCm install on Ubuntu 22.04, following the ROCm documentation on installing 6.1.1.

I agree though the documentation could be improved. I realize NVIDIA is probably not that well supported, though really helpful for developing. For example, following all the instructions (by following the link to "install ROCm in general"), the docs want me to install amdgpu-dkms even on an NVIDIA system, which obviously doesn't make much sense, so a bit more guidance on this would be appreciated (though understandable if not the primary focus of this project :-) )

[DucHUNG312]

I also got this error, and I had to build HIP from source

[ReeRichard]

I also got this error, and I had to build HIP from source

Interesting, and this worked for you? Was this with the latest release 6.1.2? Because with 6.1.1 this was not working either.

[ppanchad-amd]

Fix will be available in the future ROCm 6.2 release. Thanks!