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hirschme
Asked: 2018-06-01 10:24:50 +0800 CST

apt showsdifferent nvidia package version than nvidia-smi

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Previously I had installed nvidia-384 version 384.130, which I downgraded to 384.111

nvidia-smi corroborates this:

nvidia-smi

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However apt show and aptitude show still keep showing the old version

apt show nvidia-384

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aptitude show nvidia-384

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aptitude shows the correct currently installed. But still lists 384.130 as the current version.

I am having a lot of issue installing a deep learning environment in ubuntu 17.10 (CUDA 9.0, gcc 6, cuDNN 7). So I am trying to make everything detect the correct nvidia driver version.

Why this incoherence between package versions? Are the drivers likely incorrectly installed?

package-management drivers nvidia apt

1 Answers

  1. Did you purge the old installation?

    Use locate, or find, and delete specific files.

    That being said, what a subtle downgrade in version! Are you sure it will help, when most folks want the very latest drivers?!

    I'm looking for the latest drivers but, I have a GTX 1080 winging its way to me, as I write - I may well have to join you in downgrading, before too long!

    Can I ask, what problem have you encountered, and your certainty that downgrading is the solution?

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