Ubuntu 26.04 Allows "sudo apt install rocm" But It's Months Out-Of-Date
2026-04-25 19:36 UTC
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@chrash0@lemmy.world 2026-04-25 21:23
there’s a world of options. this is an LTS distro. use Arch or Nix or whatever if you want the latest packages. i actually switched to NixOS because the CUDA drivers were too new on Arch, and i wanted a better way to pin versions. or i dunno keep publicly complaining about it until someone does the work for you
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@umbrella@lemmy.ml 2026-04-25 21:34
this is why we are moving to packaging like flatpak.
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@Lemmchen@feddit.org 2026-04-25 22:08
But It’s Months Out-Of-Date So, par for the course for Ubuntu, no?
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@savvywolf@pawb.social 2026-04-26 00:16
Especially with the newer ROCm 7.2.x releases improving hardware support and other improvements. Especially with the rate of improvements to ROCm recently, it’s unfortunate to see ROCm 7.1 shipped in the Ubuntu 26.04 archive. Improvements! But yeah, 3 months out of date for software that isn’t security critical is fine. Probably just hit the feature freeze at a bad time. It still presumably works well enough for most people.
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@geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 2026-04-26 09:58
Hot take: Windows handles this stuff so much better.
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@middlemanSI@lemmy.world 2026-04-26 00:51
Being old != bad. Some software is not critical in terms of cyber security. You have to assess the use case. Feels like you’re screaming wolf, without knowing the package.
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@Chaser@lemmy.zip 2026-04-26 00:41
Surprise! A Debian based distro uses antique packages! Who would have seen that coming? 🙀 /s
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@doodoo_wizard@lemmy.ml 2026-04-26 19:11
Rocmuh balls
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@AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 2026-04-26 19:55
I don’t think I know what rocm is 🤪
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@mlfh@lm.mlfh.org 2026-04-26 02:24
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@ratatouille@feddit.org 2026-04-25 20:33
Will test it as soon as possible. Does someon know how compartible it is with a qemu VM ? I need some GPU abilities like Vulkan there.
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@vegetaaaaaaa@lemmy.world 2026-04-26 11:08
This is fine as long as upstream supports a convenient way to get the latest versions of software for which you actually need latest (APT repositories) Stable base, only explicitly allow selected unstable/bleeding edge components. This is what I do for ROCm and a few other things which need to be constantly updated (yt-dlp). Sometimes `stable-backports` repositories are enough, but not always.
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@greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-26 23:14
The most success I had at getting rocm working was just using containers.
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@Stupendous@lemmy.world 2026-04-27 00:30
Ehh. 7.1 isnt that old. If they don’t make any newer available until 28.04, then this’ll just be a major baseline. It’ll nice regardless just if it leads to more rocm support. The package and maintainers are in place for this to keep going every 6 months
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@stupidcasey@lemmy.world 2026-04-27 04:45
Why is this surprising? I would be more surprised if it didn’t.
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@WormFood@lemmy.world 2026-04-27 12:16
Rocm is the singular worst piece of software I’ve ever used
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@Kanda@reddthat.com 2026-04-27 18:42
Just build it from source, then