Revision as of 00:22, 3 February 2025

CUDA, Nvidia, GPU

• https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads?target_os=Linux&target_arch=x86_64&Distribution=Ubuntu&target_version=20.04&target_type=deb_local

• https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-smi-has-failed-because-it-couldn-t-communicate-with-the-nvidia-driver-after-updating-ubuntu-20-04/170985/2

Install

• From: https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-installation-guide-linux/index.html

wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2204/x86_64/cuda-ubuntu2204.pin
sudo mv cuda-ubuntu2204.pin /etc/apt/preferences.d/cuda-repository-pin-600
wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/12.8.0/local_installers/cuda-repo-ubuntu2204-12-8-local_12.8.0-570.86.10-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i cuda-repo-ubuntu2204-12-8-local_12.8.0-570.86.10-1_amd64.deb
sudo cp /var/cuda-repo-ubuntu2204-12-8-local/cuda-*-keyring.gpg /usr/share/keyrings/
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install cuda-toolkit-12-8

wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/12.8.0/local_installers/cuda_12.8.0_570.86.10_linux.run
sudo sh cuda_12.8.0_570.86.10_linux.run

 ## didn't work
 sudo apt-get purge nvidia*
 sudo apt-get autoremove
 sudo apt-get autoclean
 sudo rm -rf /usr/local/cuda*

 ## didn't work
 apt install module-assistant
 sudo m-a prepare

 sudo apt install gcc-12

 sudo sh ./cuda_10.2.<spec>.run --toolkit --silent --override
 sudo sh cuda*.run --override --silent