Ubuntu – amdgpu-pro fails to install on 16.04

16.04additional-driversamd-graphicsapt

I upgraded from 15.10 to 16.04 today (yeah I'm late :-/) and tried to install the amdgpu-pro driver. But after I downloaded and extracted the files, when I run amdgpu-pro-install I get the following error(s):

$amdgpu-pro-driver/amdgpu-pro-install
[sudo] password for MYUSER: 
deb file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro/ ./
Get:1 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ InRelease
Ign:1 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ InRelease
Get:2 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Release
Ign:2 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Release
Get:3 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Packages
Ign:3 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Packages
Get:4 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Translation-en_US
Ign:4 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Translation-en_US
Get:5 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Translation-en
Ign:5 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Translation-en
Get:6 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Translation-de
Ign:6 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Translation-de
Get:3 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Packages
Ign:3 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Packages
Get:4 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Translation-en_US
Ign:4 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Translation-en_US
Get:5 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Translation-en
Ign:5 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Translation-en
Get:6 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Translation-de
Ign:6 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Translation-de
Get:3 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Packages
Ign:3 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Packages
Get:4 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Translation-en_US
Ign:4 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Translation-en_US
Get:5 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Translation-en
Ign:5 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Translation-en
Get:6 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Translation-de
Ign:6 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Translation-de
Get:3 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Packages [6.987 B]
Get:4 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Translation-en_US
Ign:4 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Translation-en_US
Get:5 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Translation-en
Ign:5 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Translation-en
Get:6 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Translation-de
Ign:6 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Translation-de
Get:4 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Translation-en_US
Ign:4 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Translation-en_US
Get:5 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Translation-en
Ign:5 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Translation-en
Get:6 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Translation-de
Ign:6 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Translation-de
Get:4 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Translation-en_US
Ign:4 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Translation-en_US
Get:5 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Translation-en
Ign:5 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Translation-en
Ign:3 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Packages
Get:6 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Translation-de
Ign:6 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Translation-de
Get:3 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Packages
Ign:3 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Packages
Get:3 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Packages
Err:3 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Packages
  File not found - /var/opt/amdgpu-pro/./Packages (2: No such file or directory)
Hit:7 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:8 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Hit:9 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Hit:10 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
N: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/var/opt/amdgpu-pro/./InRelease' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)
W: The repository 'file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro ./ Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore potentially dangerous to use.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: Failed to fetch file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro/./Packages  File not found - /var/opt/amdgpu-pro/./Packages (2: No such file or directory)
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree   
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package amdgpu-pro
E: Unable to locate package amdgpu-pro-lib32
E: Unable to locate package amdgpu-pro-dkms

I would guess that AMD just screwed up the local repo, but I'm not too familiar with that.

Thank you for any help!

Some system info (I don't think it matters here):

Graphics: Radeon R9380X

Kernel: 4.4.0-38

Best Answer

You might try running the installer NOT as root.

So don't sudo -i or anything.

Don't sudo ./amdgpu-pro-install either.

Just run as unpriviliged user who can use the sudo command. The script will call sudo for you, but if you are already root it won't be able to "drop" privileges later. Buggy because it assumes a umask when it should define one specifically.

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