How can I install CUDA 9 on Ubuntu 17.10

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 and set the corresponding sym-links: sudo apt install gcc-6 sudo apt install g++-6 sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-6 /usr/local/cuda/bin/gcc sudo ln -s /usr/bin/g++-6 /usr/local/cuda/bin/g++ Note that the default gcc version is still 7.2; can be checked by running gcc -v again. Installation of CUDA 9 + SDK 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] 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 Disclaimer: This guide is produced from memory and my .bash_histroy. Hence it is possible that a step is missing. Please comment if this is the case. share improve this answer edited Jan 7 at 18:34 answered  Oct 21 '17 at 19:05 B0rk4 488 1 4 12

Been stuck on this issue for a bit. Running 17.10, trying to install CUDA 9. I'm having an issue on step 2: nvidia-smi NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Ran lspci | grep -i nvidia says I have a GeForce GTX 760. mokutil --sb-stateshows SecureBoot disabled. Ran sudo apt-get purge nvidia*, ran your install command for 384, and ran dpkg -S nvidia-smi nvidia-384: /usr/lib/nvidia-384/bin/nvidia-smi. Any suggestions? –  Clark Kent  Oct 23 '17 at 2:53 I assume you tried a reboot after installing nvidia-384, didn't you? –  B0rk4  Oct 23 '17 at 2:57 Yes, many reboots. I'm also getting another error from modprobe: modprobe: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod-module.c:832 kmod_module_insert_module() could not find module by name='nvidia_384' –  Clark Kent  Oct 23 '17 at 3:00 4 I had to do either sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-6 /usr/local/cuda-9.0/bin/gcc sudo ln -s /usr/bin/g++-6 /usr/local/cuda-9.0/bin/g++ or sudo ./cuda_9.0.176_384.81_linux-run --override as author below recommends to install successfully without compiler conflict –  yauheni_selivonchyk  Nov 3 '17 at 4:22 6 the two commands to add the symbolic links for the gcc 6 compilers have to be done after installing cuda, because /usr/local/cuda does not exist before installing –  Luis Lobo Borobia  Nov 20 '17 at 2:32  show 5 more comments

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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 share improve this answer