How To Install rocm-smi on CentOS 8

rocm-smi is AMD ROCm System Management Interface

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rocm-smi on CentOS 8.

What is rocm-smi

This package includes the rocm-smi tool. This tool exposes functionality for clock and temperature management of your ROCm enabled system.

We can use yum or dnf to install rocm-smi on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rocm-smi.

Install rocm-smi on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install rocm-smi using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install rocm-smi

Install rocm-smi on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install rocm-smi using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rocm-smi

How To Uninstall rocm-smi on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the rocm-smi package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove rocm-smi

rocm-smi Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/rocm-smi
/usr/share/doc/rocm-smi
/usr/share/doc/rocm-smi/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/rocm-smi
/usr/share/licenses/rocm-smi/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/rocm-smi.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install rocm-smi on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.