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Ubuntu* 20.04 (focal)

Driver installation instructions assume the Linux distribution is already installed.  Refer to 3rd party instructions to load the distribution, if not already present.

If you need to update your GPU firmware, refer to the system’s Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) for the latest version.

Step 1 Add package repository

To install the repositories.intel.com/graphics package repository, add the following to your Ubuntu installation. Prior to copy/pasting to your console, you may want to run sudo ls and enter your password to prevent the commands from being swallowed by the sudo password prompt:

sudo apt-get install -y gpg-agent wget
wget -qO - https://repositories.intel.com/graphics/intel-graphics.key | \
  sudo gpg --dearmor --output /usr/share/keyrings/intel-graphics.gpg
echo 'deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/intel-graphics.gpg] https://repositories.intel.com/graphics/ubuntu focal-legacy main' | \
  sudo tee  /etc/apt/sources.list.d/intel.gpu.focal.list

The above will make sure your system has gpg-agent and wget installed. It will then download and install the public key used to verify the integrity of the package repository. Finally, it adds the repositories.intel.com/graphics repository to the system.

Step 2 Install run-time packages

You can install the GPU software packages by running the following:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install \
  intel-opencl-icd \
  intel-level-zero-gpu level-zero \
  intel-media-va-driver-non-free libmfx1 libmfxgen1 libvpl2
  • Intel OpenCL™ Offline Compiler (intel-ocloc) is included in intel-opencl-icd.

OPTIONAL: Install developer packages

If you will be doing development, you may want to install optional development packages. oneAPI users will need to install these packages for some of the oneAPI tools to function correctly:

sudo apt-get install \
  libigc-dev \
  intel-igc-cm \
  libigdfcl-dev \
  libigfxcmrt-dev \
  level-zero-dev

Step 3 Configuring permissions

In order to access GPU capabilities, a user needs to have the correct permissions on system. The following will list the group assigned ownership of the render nodes, and list the groups the active user is a member of:

stat -c "%G" /dev/dri/render*
groups ${USER}

If a group is listed for the render node which isn’t listed for the user, you will need to add the user to the group using gpasswd. In the following, the active user will be added to the ‘render’ group and a new shell spawned with that group active:

sudo gpasswd -a ${USER} render
newgrp render