ROCm Packages in Plasma's Discover

Hi Everyone,

I've been using Debian since the 1990s and I used to use apt and switched to aptitude and now I'm running Discover, checking it out for one of the first times.

I have a two Radeon repos in Discover, and have several rocm packages installed on my machine, which is running Bookworm — including rocm-6.3.1 located in my /opt directory, which I downloaded and installed from Radeon a month ago, following their instructions. Everything works fine.

Here's the weird part. Several days ago, I either dreamed this or it's real, and this is why I'm here asking:

In the latest update, Discover had a list of several rocm packages that were prepared for installation, including hipcc, rocm-cmake, rocm-device-libs and rocminfo. But there was also a list 10-20 packages Discover was warning me were going to be removed, including rocm-6.3.1, which are the base rocm files, presumably.

But I no longer see these removal warnings in Discover, yet the list of Discover upgrades looks the same.

Does Discover always warn when packages are to be removed? I don't recall. Was this a dream I had?

Finally, would it be safe to upgrade these packages if I don't see any warnings today? Is there a place in Discover to find any warnings, I couldn't find any anywhere.

Maybe I can add the radeon repos to my apt/sources.list and see what aptitude says.

What do you think?

Statistics: Posted by charlesrkiss — 2025-02-07 20:46 — Replies 2 — Views 53

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