Ubuntu – How to build ATI Crimson driver on Ubuntu 15.10

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I'm trying to build the package but I'm getting this dependency missing message:

NOTE: If your system has logged the missing packages required for installation, install them in the order as per the log file to resolve package-dependency issues.
Check if system has the tools required for Packages Generation.
To build kernel modules of AMD, system needs Kernel-Development package to be installed
Please run command: sudo zypper install kernel-devel <we presume, you have DVD in the CD driver>

One or more tools required for Graphics Pacakges Generation are not found on the system. Recommended is to install the required tools for successful package generation.
Optionally, you can run commands to ignore these dependecies but end result may not be as expected. Not recommended

I already installed the headers for 4.2.0-18-generic kernel, and solved the "version.h" missing according to this post. But can't proceed with building the ATI driver…

Can someone help, please !?

Best Answer

I had the same problem and solved it by following the instructions from this page. The page is written in spanish, but all the commands are in english, so it's pretty straightforward.

According with this page, there is a bug in the Ubuntu/wily AMD installation script. That's why you can't install the new driver.

Just to warn you, the command 

sudo ./amd-driver-installer-15.30.1025-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/wily

may take some minutes to finish, so don't think that the terminal is frozen.

And there's also a little mistake in the command

sudo dpgk -i *.deb

The correct command is

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Hope that it helps!

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