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Thulashitharan D
Asked: 2020-11-09 06:59:43 +0800 CST

Does cuda toolkit leave its installation files behind?

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Before installing cuda toolkit.I had about 25 gibibytes of free space on my root directory.After installing cuda using deb(network installer) and a manual reboot after installation I noticed that only about 15 gibibytes of free space disk space was available in root dir.As cuda toolkit usually occupies only about 5 gibibytes of space i assume the installer probably failed clean itself up(2*5GiB=10GiB).Advise me on how to rectify the issue.

The following commands did not help sudo apt-get autoclean sudo apt-get clean sudo apt-get autoremove
PS:I installed cuda so that i can render blender scenes with my gpu.is it necessary to install the entire toolkit for this purpose?

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2 Answers

  1. Does cuda toolkit leave its installation files behind?

    Weird way to phrase this question.

    apt will leave configuration files if you did not use purge when you removed it and it will also never remove personal created files. So if you created a file it will still be there.

    1 dubious part of the installation from the link:

    sudo mv cuda-ubuntu2004.pin /etc/apt/preferences.d/cuda-repository-pin-600

    apt does not know about this command so do check if that got removed.

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  2. Best Answer

    Look in the location you installed cuda, (/usr/local/cuda?) for a directory with a name like cuda-repo-ubuntu1804-10-2-local-10.2.89-440.33.01_1.0-1_amd64.deb That just contains all the separate deb files, and may be removed, as it's not necessary for running CUDA.

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