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How to install CUDA 6.5 on Ubuntu 14.04

📅 2015-Feb-26 ⬩ ✍️ Ashwin Nanjappa ⬩ 🏷️ cuda, installation, ubuntu ⬩ 📚 Archive

Installing CUDA is becoming increasingly easier on Ubuntu. I think I keep hitting problems because I am usually updating from an older NVIDIA graphics driver or CUDA version. NVIDIA continues to be quite bad at providing error-free upgrades. Anyway, this is what worked for me:

$ sudo gdebi cuda-repo-ubuntu1404_6.5-14_amd64.deb
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install cuda

This is a big install, it will install everything including a nvidia-340 driver that actually worked and NVIDIA NSight. After the install, reboot the computer. Your CUDA is ready for work now 😊

Note: I tried this on two systems. On one, it installed without any problem. On the other, it gave an error of unmet dependencies. I have described here how I solved this problem.

Tried with: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 and NVIDIA GTX Titan


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