How to enable GPU rendering with my Radeon card in Linux? I am currently running Ubuntu 15.04 64-bit on a machine with a Radeon R9 270X GPU.

I've grabbed the latest 64-bit Linux build from this page (currently 2.75-a08f8a4) and I have installed the latest Catalyst drivers directly from AMD's website (currently 15.20.1046-150622a-186193C).

However, no matter what I do, I still don't see an OpenCL option anywhere in Blender's user preferences:



What am I missing or doing wrong?

Note: I tried setting the CYCLES_OPENCL_SPLIT_KERNEL_TEST=1 environment variable but it made no difference.
AHA!

So it turns out that I needed the ocl-icd-opencl-dev  package installed. Once I installed that package...



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