Intel Arc/Xe Compute on Linux: the essential list of packages (August 2024)

Can you use distro packages to unleash the full compute potential of your Intel Arc GPU on Linux? In this video, I walk you through the essential packages you need, straight from your distro's repositories. I'll talk about the availability of packages such as intel-compute-runtime, levelzero, gmmlib, libvpl, and more, across various distributions like Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian, and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. Whether you're setting up AI compute tasks or Video transcoding, this guide has you covered.

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:34 - Why This All Matters
01:10 - Intel Compute Runtime
01:57 - Level Zero
02:46 - GMMLIB
02:57 - libVPL
03:30 - Thank You / State of the Channel
04:27 - VPL-GPU-RT vs. MediaSDK
05:28 - LibVA
06:40 - The Other Distros
08:00 - Conclusion

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[CompellingBytes]

**ADDENDUM**:
Ubuntu doesn't apply security patches to packages from the Universe repository unless you have an Ubuntu Pro subscription (it costs money after you use it on 5 systems, as I understand it). Consider this if you want to do compute things with Intel Arc on Ubuntu and Ubuntu derived distros using these packages from an Ubuntu repo.

Also consider that the following popular applications are in the Universe repo (and various others):
Handbrake
Kodi
GIMP
Audacity
The various Keepasses

[Trfeo]

Thanks again for all the Linux Intel Arc videos!

[Fmonster]

Really interesting to follow the progress. Let's see how it's gonna look with the new series of cards. Great vids man!

[sitaroartworks]

Hi, could you cover also Blender 4.2 LTS for Intel ARC (oneAPI packages) in the next video? Thanks.

[xlrusa]

I've been working on getting compute working on Fedora 39/40, on version of 39 the repos were working and I was able to get things working, but updates to Fedora broke everything. Have you gotten oneAPI working on Arc gpus?

[VicariousAdventurer]

I have, on Linux Mint Wilma (based on Ubuntu LTS Noble)

libmfx-dev - Intel Media SDK -- development files
libmfx-gen-dev - Intel oneVPL GPU Runtime -- development files
libmfx-gen1.2 - Intel oneVPL GPU Runtime -- shared library
libmfx-tools - Intel Media SDK -- tools
libmfx1 - Intel Media SDK -- shared library

[Emiliano-rrh]

do all these apply for fedora as well?

[Klaus_Stotebecker]

hi, do you have some tips of how getting encoders and rt working on opensuse? i running up to date tumbleweed and i cant get rt working on cyberpunk 2077 and only software encoders are avaliable on obs

[Florennum_]

cant wait for the amd equivalent of this video

[Winnetou]

Holy moly, what a clusterF... and people wonder why some people won't switch to Linux.