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Install SCALE#

Select your operating system and version below to see installation instructions.

# Add the scale and rocm deb repos.
curl -vlO https://pkgs.scale-lang.com/deb/dists/jammy/main/binary-all/scale-repos.deb
sudo dpkg -i scale-repos.deb

# Install SCALE
sudo apt update && sudo apt install scale-free

# Add your user to the `video` group:
sudo usermod -a -G video $(whoami)

If you did not already have the amdgpu-dkms kernel driver installed prior to installing SCALE, you should now reboot.

# Add the scale and rocm deb repos.
curl -vlO https://pkgs.scale-lang.com/deb/dists/noble/main/binary-all/scale-repos.deb
sudo dpkg -i scale-repos.deb

# Install SCALE
sudo apt update && sudo apt install scale-free

# Add your user to the `video` group:
sudo usermod -a -G video $(whoami)

If you did not already have the amdgpu-dkms kernel driver installed prior to installing SCALE, you should now reboot.

Download and extract the SCALE tarball:

# sha512sum: c08d823d5ee53027cad31c1daadf325aa684c324f64db0ac09d7bcda1d7dc3aba2cc943f5224d7f5f8363e2ba495a5c910956fe79b48396bbe61a93e8b364eb8
wget https://dist.scale-lang.com/scale-free-1.2.0-Linux.tar.xz

# Extract the SCALE tarball.
tar xf scale-free-1.2.0-Linux.tar.xz

The tarball is significantly larger than other options since it includes many dependent libraries directly instead of asking the system package manager to install them.