Installing Hashcat with AMD Radeon drivers on Ubuntu Linux
This post describes how I got the latest build of Hashcat working on a newly installed Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS.
My previous password cracking rig was a 2009 Mac Pro with an AMD Radeon RX580 and this proved a fast and reliable platform for several years until I upgraded the MacOS version to 10.15 (Catalina) after which hashcat started throwing runtime errors like:
