Installing Nvidia Cuda on Linux

CUDA Toolkit Installer

https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads?target_os=Linux&target_arch=x86_64&Distribution=Ubuntu&target_version=24.04&target_type=deb_local

wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2404/x86_64/cuda-ubuntu2404.pin
sudo mv cuda-ubuntu2404.pin /etc/apt/preferences.d/cuda-repository-pin-600
wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/12.6.1/local_installers/cuda-repo-ubuntu2404-12-6-local_12.6.1-560.35.03-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i cuda-repo-ubuntu2404-12-6-local_12.6.1-560.35.03-1_amd64.deb
sudo cp /var/cuda-repo-ubuntu2404-12-6-local/cuda-*-keyring.gpg /usr/share/keyrings/
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install cuda-toolkit-12-6

Tensor RT

Download deb installer from: https://developer.nvidia.com/tensorrt/download/10x

Instructions: https://docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning/tensorrt/install-guide/index.html#installing-debian

sudo dpkg -i nv-tensorrt-loc.....
sudo cp /var/nv-tensorrt-local-repo-${os}-${tag}/*-keyring.gpg /usr/share/keyrings/
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tensorrt

cuDNN 9.4.0

https://developer.nvidia.com/cudnn-downloads?target_os=Linux&target_arch=x86_64&Distribution=Ubuntu&target_version=24.04&target_type=deb_local

wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cudnn/9.4.0/local_installers/cudnn-local-repo-ubuntu2404-9.4.0_1.0-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i cudnn-local-repo-ubuntu2404-9.4.0_1.0-1_amd64.deb
sudo cp /var/cudnn-local-repo-ubuntu2404-9.4.0/cudnn-*-keyring.gpg /usr/share/keyrings/
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install cudnn

To install for CUDA 11, perform the above configuration but install the CUDA 11 specific package:

sudo apt-get -y install cudnn-cuda-11

To install for CUDA 12, perform the above configuration but install the CUDA 12 specific package:

sudo apt-get -y install cudnn-cuda-12

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