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B0rk4
Asked: 2017-10-22 11:05:19 +0800 CST

How can I install CUDA 9 on Ubuntu 17.10

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Ubuntu 17.10 comes with CUDA 8 which relies on clang 3.8 (e.g. see this blogpost).

However, I'd like to install CUDA 9 and rely on GCC if possible. How can I do this?

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3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Installation of NVIDIA driver 384

    First we install a fresh Ubuntu 17.10 on a computer with an NVIDIA GPU and select "Install third-party software" during the process. Alternatively, we can add the graphics drivers repository manually:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt update

    Then we install the most recent NVIDIA driver using apt:

    sudo apt install nvidia-384 nvidia-384-dev

    We verify the installation by running:

    nvidia-smi

    We should see an output which lists the NVIDIA 384 driver and our discrete NVIDIA GPU - similar to summarized table below:

    +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 384.90                 Driver Version: 384.90                    |
|                                                                             |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
|   0  Quadro M500M        Off  | 00000000:06:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| N/A   48C    P0    N/A /  N/A |    943MiB /  2002MiB |     26%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

    Preparation for installing of CUDA 9 + SDK

    We install a number of build/dev packages which we require later:

    sudo apt-get install g++ freeglut3-dev build-essential libx11-dev libxmu-dev libxi-dev libglu1-mesa libglu1-mesa-dev

    We notice that the default gcc/g++ version on 17.10 is 7.2.0 (Ubuntu 7.2.0-8ubuntu3) :

    gcc -v

    CUDA 9 requires gcc 6. Thus, we install it:

    sudo apt install gcc-6
sudo apt install g++-6

    Note that the default gcc version is still 7.2; can be checked by running gcc -v again.

    Installation of CUDA 9 + SDK

    From the CUDA Toolkit Archive, select one of the "runfile (local)" installation packages to download a version of CUDA 9, such as

    wget https://developer.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/9.0/Prod/local_installers/cuda_9.0.176_384.81_linux-run

    Make the downloaded file executable and run it using sudo:

    chmod +x cuda_9.0.176_384.81_linux-run 
sudo ./cuda_9.0.176_384.81_linux-run --override

    We install CUDA with the following configurations:

    You are attempting to install on an unsupported configuration. Do you wish to continue?
y
Install NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86_64 384.81?
n
Install the CUDA 9.0 Toolkit?
y
Enter Toolkit Location
[default location]
Do you want to install a symbolic link at /usr/local/cuda?
y
Install the CUDA 9.0 Samples?
y
Enter CUDA Samples Location
[default location]

    Set up symlinks for gcc/g++:

    sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-6 /usr/local/cuda/bin/gcc
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/g++-6 /usr/local/cuda/bin/g++

    Test the CUDA 9 installation using the SDK

    Build your favorite CUDA sample and run it:

    cd ~/NVIDIA_CUDA-9.0_Samples/5_Simulations/smokeParticles
make
../../bin/x86_64/linux/release/smokeParticles

    You may like to set up gcc/g++ symlinks after the cuda install.

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  2. Getting this installed took more time than I would like to admit, and while the above answer is a good template, I had some additional steps required for my fresh install of Ubuntu 17.10:

    blacklist nouveau

    sudo vim /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

    Add the following:

    # this one might not be required for x86 32 bit users.
blacklist amd76x_edac 

blacklist vga16fb
blacklist nouveau
blacklist rivafb
blacklist nvidiafb
blacklist rivatv

    Update initramfs disk

    sudo update-initramfs -u

    Stop gdm3

    sudo /etc/init.d/gdm3 stop

sudo init 3

    Get content

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install nvidia-384 nvidia-384-dev
sudo apt-get install g++ freeglut3-dev build-essential libx11-dev libxmu-dev libxi-dev libglu1-mesa libglu1-mesa-dev

nvidia-smi

    Get the package

    wget https://developer.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/9.0/Prod/local_installers/cuda_9.0.176_384.81_linux-run

    Run with --override to override compiler choice

    chmod +x cuda_9.0.176_384.81_linux-run 
sudo ./cuda_9.0.176_384.81_linux-run --override

    After installing the package, I would get errors with nvidia-smi, so I suggest running the command again to verify it works. When I had issues, I would purge nvidia* and re-get it.

    nvidia-smi
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  3. I followed the accepted answer (@ubashu) and everything went well (if not exactly the same, the instructions would lead to the correct path). I would only had the export to Path (as specified also on https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-installation-guide-linux/index.html#post-installation-actions)

    export PATH=/usr/local/cuda-9.0/bin${PATH:+:${PATH}} 
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/cuda-9.0/lib64\ ${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}}

    After that you can use nvcc -V to check if the install really went well.

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