Building ATI Catalyst 10.1 packages under Ubuntu/Karmic
As you may know, AMD released ATI Catalyst 10.1 last week: it should ensure Karmic Koala’s support… but it fails the package building on Ubuntu 9.10 — I know, it’s ridiculous.
Luckily, a user submitter a workaround to solve this issue: I’ve already tested it and it works fine.
You can’t find these packages in the official repositories, yet — nor I think they’ll ever be available there: this is the only way I know to install them.
Let’s see what to do in details: I recommend you to install both gksu and nautilus-gsku before proceeding.
$ wget http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-10-1-x86.x86_64.run $ ./ati-driver-installer-10-1-x86.x86_64.run --extract $ cd fglrx-install.AbCdEf/arch/x86_64/usr/lib64/
Well, this works on 64-bit systems: I imagine that 32-bit ones doesn’t need any workaround. Remember to replace AbCdEf with the proper 6-digits name of your path (I used [tab] to do so automatically).
$ ln -sf libatiuki.so.1.0 libatiuki.so.1 $ cd ../../../../ $ ./ati-installer.sh 10.1 --buildandinstallpkg Ubuntu/karmic
Don’t forget to append version and don’t use sudo here: alternatively, you may want to build the packages and install them in a second time.
In this case just replace --buildandinstallpkg with --buildpkg and install them later via dpkg with sudoer rights. In my example, you’ll be prompted for your admin password when needed.
It may fail to overwrite your /etc/X11/xorg.conf configuration file, but packages finish the installation process successfully. Restart the system and make any modification you need.
