diff --git a/projects/hip/bin/hipcc b/projects/hip/bin/hipcc
index 81f394102a..35fbb54397 100755
--- a/projects/hip/bin/hipcc
+++ b/projects/hip/bin/hipcc
@@ -22,8 +22,10 @@ use Cwd 'abs_path';
 # Other environment variable controls:
 # HIP_PATH  : Path to HIP directory, default is one dir level above location of this script
 # CUDA_PATH : Path to CUDA SDK (default /usr/local/cuda). Used on NVIDIA platforms only.
-# HCC_HOME  : Path to HCC SDK (default /opt/rocm/hcc).  Used on AMD platforms only.
-# HSA_PATH  : Path to HSA dir (default /opt/rocm/hsa).  Used on AMD platforms only.
+# HCC_HOME  : Path to HCC SDK (defaults to ../../hcc relative to this
+#             script's abs_path). Used on AMD platforms only.
+# HSA_PATH  : Path to HSA dir (defaults to ../../hsa relative to abs_path
+#             of this script). Used on AMD platforms only.
 # HIP_VDI_HOME : Path to HIP/VDI directory. Used on AMD platforms only.
 
 if(scalar @ARGV == 0){
@@ -58,7 +60,23 @@ $isWindows = $^O eq 'MSWin32';
 $HIPCC_COMPILE_FLAGS_APPEND=$ENV{'HIPCC_COMPILE_FLAGS_APPEND'};
 $HIPCC_LINK_FLAGS_APPEND=$ENV{'HIPCC_LINK_FLAGS_APPEND'};
 
-$HIP_PATH=$ENV{'HIP_PATH'} // dirname (dirname $0); # use parent directory of hipcc
+#
+# TODO: Fix rpath LDFLAGS settings
+#
+# Since this hipcc script gets installed at two uneven hierarchical levels,
+# linked by symlink, the absolute path of this script should be used to
+# derive HIP_PATH, as dirname $0 could be /opt/rocm/bin or /opt/rocm/hip/bin
+# depending on how it gets invoked.
+# ROCM_PATH which points to <rocm_install_dir> is determined based on whether
+# we find .info/version in the parent of HIP_PATH or not. If it is found,
+# ROCM_PATH is defined relative to HIP_PATH else it is hardcoded to /opt/rocm.
+#
+$HIP_PATH=$ENV{'HIP_PATH'} // dirname(Cwd::abs_path("$0/../")); # use parent directory of hipcc
+if (-e "$HIP_PATH/../.info/version") {
+    $ROCM_PATH=$ENV{'ROCM_PATH'} // dirname("$HIP_PATH"); # use parent directory of HIP_PATH
+} else {
+    $ROCM_PATH=$ENV{'ROCM_PATH'} // "/opt/rocm";
+}
 $HIP_VDI_HOME=$ENV{'HIP_VDI_HOME'};
 $HIP_LIB_PATH=$ENV{'HIP_LIB_PATH'};
 $HIP_CLANG_PATH=$ENV{'HIP_CLANG_PATH'};
@@ -68,7 +86,7 @@ $HIP_CLANG_HCC_COMPAT_MODE=$ENV{'HIP_CLANG_HCC_COMPAT_MODE'}; # HCC compatibilit
 if (defined $HIP_VDI_HOME) {
     $HIP_INFO_PATH= "$HIP_VDI_HOME/lib/.hipInfo";
 } else {
-    $HIP_INFO_PATH= "$HIP_PATH/lib/.hipInfo";
+    $HIP_INFO_PATH= "$HIP_PATH/lib/.hipInfo"; # use actual file
 }
 
 #---
@@ -112,7 +130,7 @@ if (defined $HIP_RUNTIME and $HIP_RUNTIME eq "VDI" and !defined $HIP_VDI_HOME) {
     if (-e "$hipcc_dir/../lib/bitcode") {
         $HIP_VDI_HOME = abs_path($hipcc_dir . "/..");
     } else {
-        $HIP_VDI_HOME = "/opt/rocm/hip";
+        $HIP_VDI_HOME = $HIP_PATH; # use HIP_PATH
     }
 }
 
@@ -136,10 +154,10 @@ if (defined $HIP_VDI_HOME) {
 if (defined $HIP_COMPILER and $HIP_COMPILER eq "clang") {
   $HIP_PLATFORM = "clang";
   if (!defined $HIP_CLANG_PATH) {
-    $HIP_CLANG_PATH = "/opt/rocm/llvm/bin";
+    $HIP_CLANG_PATH = "$ROCM_PATH/llvm/bin";
   }
   if (!defined $DEVICE_LIB_PATH) {
-    $DEVICE_LIB_PATH = "/opt/rocm/lib";
+    $DEVICE_LIB_PATH = "$ROCM_PATH/lib";
   }
 }
 
@@ -163,7 +181,6 @@ $target_gfx1012 = 0;
 $default_amdgpu_target = 1;
 
 if ($HIP_PLATFORM eq "clang") {
-    $ROCM_PATH=$ENV{'ROCM_PATH'} // "/opt/rocm";
     $HIPCC="$HIP_CLANG_PATH/clang++";
 
     # If $HIPCC clang++ is not compiled, use clang instead
@@ -215,7 +232,7 @@ if ($HIP_PLATFORM eq "clang") {
     }
 
     if ($HIP_RUNTIME eq "HCC" ) {
-      $HSA_PATH=$ENV{'HSA_PATH'} // "/opt/rocm/hsa";
+      $HSA_PATH=$ENV{'HSA_PATH'} // "$ROCM_PATH/hsa";
       $HIPCXXFLAGS .= " -isystem $HSA_PATH/include";
     }
 
@@ -224,9 +241,9 @@ if ($HIP_PLATFORM eq "clang") {
     if (! defined $HIP_LIB_PATH) {
         $HIP_LIB_PATH = "$HIP_PATH/lib";
     }
-    $HSA_PATH=$ENV{'HSA_PATH'} // "/opt/rocm/hsa";
+    $HSA_PATH=$ENV{'HSA_PATH'} // "$ROCM_PATH/hsa";
 
-    $HCC_HOME=$ENV{'HCC_HOME'} // $hipConfig{'HCC_HOME'} // "/opt/rocm/hcc";
+    $HCC_HOME=$ENV{'HCC_HOME'} // $hipConfig{'HCC_HOME'} // "$ROCM_PATH/hcc";
 
     $HCC_VERSION=`${HCC_HOME}/bin/hcc --version`;
     $HCC_VERSION=~/.*based on HCC ([^ ]+).*/;
@@ -234,8 +251,6 @@ if ($HIP_PLATFORM eq "clang") {
     $HCC_VERSION_MAJOR=$HCC_VERSION;
     $HCC_VERSION_MAJOR=~s/\..*//;
 
-    $ROCM_PATH=$ENV{'ROCM_PATH'} // "/opt/rocm";
-
     $HIP_ATP_MARKER=$ENV{'HIP_ATP_MARKER'} // 1;
     $marker_path = "$ROCM_PATH/profiler/CXLActivityLogger";
 
diff --git a/projects/hip/bin/hipconfig b/projects/hip/bin/hipconfig
index 87da86f3b1..e4bf118c61 100755
--- a/projects/hip/bin/hipconfig
+++ b/projects/hip/bin/hipconfig
@@ -71,9 +71,17 @@ sub can_run {
     }
 }
 
+# Define HIP_PATH based on location of the script. Same as hipcc.
+# Derive ROCM_PATH same as hipcc does. Others are relative to ROCM_PATH. 
+$HIP_PATH=$ENV{'HIP_PATH'} // dirname(Cwd::abs_path("$0/../")); # use parent directory of hipcc
+if (-e "$HIP_PATH/../.info/version") {
+    $ROCM_PATH=$ENV{'ROCM_PATH'} // dirname("$HIP_PATH"); # use parent directory of HIP_PATH
+} else {
+    $ROCM_PATH=$ENV{'ROCM_PATH'} // "/opt/rocm";
+}
 $CUDA_PATH=$ENV{'CUDA_PATH'} // '/usr/local/cuda';
-$HCC_HOME=$ENV{'HCC_HOME'} // '/opt/rocm/hcc';
-$HSA_PATH=$ENV{'HSA_PATH'} // '/opt/rocm/hsa';
+$HCC_HOME=$ENV{'HCC_HOME'} // "$ROCM_PATH/hcc";
+$HSA_PATH=$ENV{'HSA_PATH'} // "$ROCM_PATH/hsa";
 
 #---
 #HIP_PLATFORM controls whether to use NVCC or HCC for compilation:
@@ -89,8 +97,6 @@ if (not defined $HIP_PLATFORM) {
     }
 }
 
-$HIP_PATH=$ENV{'HIP_PATH'} // Cwd::realpath (dirname (dirname $0)); # use parent directory of this tool
-
 if ($HIP_PLATFORM eq "hcc") {
     $CPP_CONFIG= " -D__HIP_PLATFORM_HCC__=   -I$HIP_PATH/include -I$HCC_HOME/include -I$HSA_PATH/include";
 }
@@ -181,7 +187,8 @@ if ($p_check) {
     print "\nCheck system installation:\n";
 
     printf ("%-70s", "check hipconfig in PATH...");
-    if (system ("hipconfig > /dev/null 2>&1") != 0)  {
+    # Safer to use which hipconfig instead of invoking hipconfig
+    if (system ("which hipconfig > /dev/null 2>&1") != 0)  {
         print "FAIL\n";
     } else {
         printf "good\n";
diff --git a/projects/hip/packaging/hip_base.postinst b/projects/hip/packaging/hip_base.postinst
index 7dfb0369d7..a8b3eed9fc 100755
--- a/projects/hip/packaging/hip_base.postinst
+++ b/projects/hip/packaging/hip_base.postinst
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ mkdir -p $ROCMBINDIR
 pushd $ROCMBINDIR
 for f in $HIPBINFILES
 do
-    ln -s -f $f $(basename $f)
+    ln -r -s -f $f $(basename $f)
 done
-    ln -s -f $HIPDIR/bin/.hipVersion .hipVersion
+    ln -r -s -f $HIPDIR/bin/.hipVersion .hipVersion
 popd
 
 # Soft-link to headers
@@ -27,5 +27,5 @@ HIPINCDIR=$HIPDIR/include/hip
 ROCMINCDIR=$ROCMDIR/include
 mkdir -p $ROCMINCDIR
 pushd $ROCMINCDIR
-    ln -s -f $HIPINCDIR hip
+    ln -r -s -f $HIPINCDIR hip
 popd
diff --git a/projects/hip/packaging/hip_hcc.postinst b/projects/hip/packaging/hip_hcc.postinst
index b7c3e628ec..1cf21dd755 100755
--- a/projects/hip/packaging/hip_hcc.postinst
+++ b/projects/hip/packaging/hip_hcc.postinst
@@ -13,17 +13,17 @@ HIPDIR=$ROCMDIR/hip
 HIPLIBDIR=$ROCMDIR/hip/lib
 
 # Soft-link to library files
-HIPLIBFILES=$(ls -aF $HIPLIBDIR | grep -v [-/$])
+HIPLIBFILES=$(ls -A $HIPLIBDIR | grep -v [-/$])
 mkdir -p $ROCMLIBDIR
 mkdir -p $ROCMLIBDIR/cmake
 pushd $ROCMLIBDIR
 for f in $HIPLIBFILES
 do
-    ln -s -f $HIPLIBDIR/$f $(basename $f)
+    ln -s -r -f $HIPLIBDIR/$f $(basename $f)
 done
 # Make the hip cmake directory link.
 pushd cmake
-ln -s -f $HIPLIBDIR/cmake/hip hip
+ln -s -r -f $HIPLIBDIR/cmake/hip hip
 popd
 popd
 
diff --git a/projects/hip/packaging/hip_hcc.prerm b/projects/hip/packaging/hip_hcc.prerm
index 8d7d8b93b2..aab670eb4f 100755
--- a/projects/hip/packaging/hip_hcc.prerm
+++ b/projects/hip/packaging/hip_hcc.prerm
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ HIPLIBDIR=$ROCMDIR/hip/lib
 ([ ! -d $ROCMLIBDIR ] || [ ! -d $HIPLIBDIR ]) && exit 0
 
 # Remove soft-links to libraries
-HIPLIBFILES=$(ls -aF $HIPLIBDIR | grep -v [-/$])
+HIPLIBFILES=$(ls -A $HIPLIBDIR | grep -v [-/$])
 pushd $ROCMLIBDIR
 for f in $HIPLIBFILES; do
     [ -e $f ] || continue