How To Install hsakmt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install hsakmt.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. hsakmt.x86_64 is AMD’s HSA thunk library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install hsakmt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `hsakmt.x86_64`

hsakmt is a thunk library for AMD’s HSA Linux kernel driver (amdkfd)

We can use yum to install hsakmt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install hsakmt.x86_64.

Install hsakmt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install hsakmt.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install hsakmt.x86_64

How To Uninstall hsakmt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the hsakmt.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove hsakmt.x86_64

hsakmt.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libhsakmt-1.so.0
/usr/lib64/libhsakmt-1.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/licenses/hsakmt-1.0.0
/usr/share/licenses/hsakmt-1.0.0/COPYING

References

hsakmt.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install hsakmt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.