Help Installing AMD GPU driver in Ubuntu 18.04

I was upgrading my AMD GPU driver. The install failed and now I can't seem to remove it either. Has anyone had any luck with this?

matiwal@MatiBuntu:~/Downloads/amdgpu-pro-18.30-633530$ ./amdgpu-install -y deb [ trusted=yes ] file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local/ ./ Get:1 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local ./ InRelease Ign:1 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local ./ InRelease Get:2 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local ./ Release [816 B] Get:2 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local ./ Release [816 B] Get:3 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local ./ Release.gpg Ign:3 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local ./ Release.gpg Fetched 172 kB in 1s (253 kB/s) Reading package lists... Done Package: *amdgpu* Pin: release o=AMD Pin: version *-633530 Pin-Priority: 1000 Package: *amdgpu*:i386 Pin: release o=AMD Pin: version *-633530 Pin-Priority: 1000 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done amdgpu is already the newest version (18.30-633530). amdgpu-lib32 is already the newest version (18.30-633530). You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies. amdgpu : Depends: libdrm-amdgpu-common (= 1.0.0-633530) but it is not going to be installed libdrm-amdgpu-amdgpu1:i386 : Depends: libdrm-amdgpu-common:i386 libdrm-amdgpu-amdgpu1 : Depends: libdrm-amdgpu-common but it is not going to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution). 

Running apt --fix-broken install gives me:

matiwal@MatiBuntu:~/Downloads/amdgpu-pro-18.30-633530$ sudo apt --fix-broken install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required: ids-amdgpu Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it. The following additional packages will be installed: libdrm-amdgpu-common The following NEW packages will be installed libdrm-amdgpu-common 0 to upgrade, 1 to newly install, 0 to remove and 46 not to upgrade. 44 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/6,732 B of archives. After this operation, 28.7 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y Get:1 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local ./ libdrm-amdgpu-common 1.0.0-633530 [6,732 B] (Reading database ... 224293 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libdrm-amdgpu-common_1.0.0-633530_all.deb ... Unpacking libdrm-amdgpu-common (1.0.0-633530) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local/./libdrm-amdgpu-common_1.0.0-633530_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/opt/amdgpu/share/libdrm/amdgpu.ids', which is also in package ids-amdgpu 1.0.0-606296 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local/./libdrm-amdgpu-common_1.0.0-633530_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) 

Trying to force remove the broken package gives me:

$ sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq amdgpu dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of amdgpu: amdgpu-lib32 depends on amdgpu (= 18.30-633530). dpkg: error processing package amdgpu (--remove): dependency problems - not removing Errors were encountered while processing: amdgpu matiwal@MatiBuntu:~/Downloads/amdgpu-pro-18.30-633530$ 

1 Answer

Had this problem yesterday too. This is how I solved it:

1. sudo apt autoremove amdgpu*
2. sudo apt install --reinstall $(uname -r)
3. reboot
4. Go to the folder with the amdgpu driver and run ./amdgpu-install -y
5. reboot
6. sudo apt update && sudo apt install amdgpu*
7. reboot
8. sudo apt --fix-broken install
9. sudo apt -f install
10. reboot

Problems solved