Installing Cuda on Ubuntu 11.10

Installing Cuda on Ubuntu 11.10

Written  2011-10-27 by  Timo Dickscheid, tagged as  3d, ubuntu

To install Cuda, I followed some hints on bottom of this thread, but also had to fix a few more issues.

1. Download the current Cuda Toolkit for Ubuntu and the GPU Computing SDK, and save the .run files somewhere.

2. Install and select gcc/g++ 4.4

   sudo apt-get install \
       gcc-4.4 g++-4.4 build-essential
   sudo update-alternatives \
       --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-4.6 40 \
       --slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-4.6 
   sudo update-alternatives \
       --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-4.4 60 \
       --slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-4.4
   

   Check with

   sudo update-alternatives —config gcc
   gcc —version
   

   that you have now version 4.4.x of the compilers.

3. Install the nvidia drivers

   sudo apt-get install \
       nvidia-current\
       nvidia-current-dev\
       nvidia-current-updates\
       nvidia-current-updates-dev
   

4. As root, run the two .run files from nvidia (see 1.).

5. For compiling the SDK examples, you also need to install

   sudo apt-get install freeglut3-dev libxi-dev
   

   and create the following links

   sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libXmu.so.6 /usr/lib/libXmu.so
   sudo ln -s /usr/lib/nvidia-173/libGL.so /usr/lib/libGL.so
   

   Then go to the NVIDIA_GPU_COMPUTING_SDK_... folder. In the fileC/common/common.mk change the line

   LINKFLAGS +=
   

   to

   LINKFLAGS += -L/usr/lib/nvidia-current
   

   Then run make. This should compile everything, indicating that the CUDA stuff works.