Hi, am new to CUDA…have got to the bit in the ‘Getting started guide for Linux’ where it describes the Package Manager Installation for Ubuntu and tells me to:
sudo dpkg -i cuda-repo-.deb
I guessed the following, and various varients thereof…
sudo dpkg -i cuda-repo-ubuntu1310_5.5-0_x86_64.deb
…none of which it can find.
I’m running Ubuntu 13.10 64-bit and trying to download CUDA 5.5.
You’ll need to download one of the cuda-repo .deb packages from CUDA Toolkit 11.7 Update 1 Downloads | NVIDIA Developer. CUDA 5.5 supports Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu 12.10 in the .deb format, so you’ll have to pick one of those.
Ok, please forgive my ignorance again…
I downloaded the .deb for ubunutu 12.10 into Ubunutu Software Centre, then ran…
sudo apt-get update
ok then…
sudo apt-get install cuda
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies.
cuda : Depends: cuda-5-5 (= 5.5-22) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Is this anything to do with needing to have uninstalled the NVIDIA driver first? cos I previously tried
/usr/bin/nvidia-uninstall and got…
bash: /usr/bin/nvidia-uninstall: No such file or directory
It should produce a similar message, except with different packages saying that they have unmet dependencies. For example, if it then says: The following packages have unmet dependencies.
cuda-5-5 : Depends: cuda-samples-5-5 (= 5.5-22) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Then try installing cuda-samples-5-5. By continuing this approach, we should end up with the package which truly does have broken dependencies.
Thank you Andy. I tried: ‘apt-get install cuda-5-5’ and got:
cuda-5-5 : Depends: nvidia-current (>= 319.00) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: nvidia-current-dev (>= 319.00) but it is not going to be installed
so I tried: ‘apt-get install nvidia-current’ and got:
nvidia-current : Depends: xorg-video-abi-11 but it is not installable or
xorg-video-abi-12 but it is not installable or
xorg-video-abi-13 but it is not installable
Recommends: nvidia-settings-current but it is not installable
so I tried: ‘apt-get install xorg-video-abi-11’ and got:
Package xorg-video-abi-11 is not available
so, looking at the advice on various postings, I also tried installing xorg-server-lts-quantal and xserver-xorg-core-lts-quantal and intel-linux-graphics-installer and xserver-xorg-core and xorg-server
None of which it could find.
Sorry, I’m stuck again - would appreciate any help you can provide.
Instead of trying to install the .deb file, just try these instructions I did a few weeks ago to install the .run file:
Those take care of installing the latest nvidia-331 drivers from xorg-edgers as well as configuring the build environment and installing the CUDA .run file appropriately. They should work on any recent Ubuntu distro: 12.04.3, 12.10, 13.04 and 13.10.
Wow. This worked perfectly. There is no WAY I would have worked this out on my own. Thank you so much vacaloca - really appreciated. Your instructions were crystal clear. Thank you.
I followed these instructions, but didn’t get the same result. The cuda installer reports this:
= Summary =
Driver: Not Selected
Toolkit: Installed in /usr/local/cuda-5.5
Samples: Installed in /opt/cuda_samples
Please make sure your PATH includes /usr/local/cuda-5.5/bin
Please make sure your LD_LIBRARY_PATH
for 32-bit Linux distributions includes /usr/local/cuda-5.5/lib
for 64-bit Linux distributions includes /usr/local/cuda-5.5/lib64:/lib
OR
for 32-bit Linux distributions add /usr/local/cuda-5.5/lib
for 64-bit Linux distributions add /usr/local/cuda-5.5/lib64 and /lib
to /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig as root
To uninstall CUDA, remove the CUDA files in /usr/local/cuda-5.5
Installation Complete
Please see CUDA_Getting_Started_Linux.pdf in /usr/local/cuda-5.5/doc/pdf for detailed information on setting up CUDA.
***WARNING: Incomplete installation! This installation did not install the CUDA Driver. A driver of version at least 319.00 is required for CUDA 5.5 functionality to work.
To install the driver using this installer, run the following command, replacing with the name of this run file:
sudo .run -silent -driver
nvidia-settings confirms that I’m using the 331.20 driver. Any ideas?
@dlauer: Your setup is most likely fine… the CUDA installer just reports it didn’t install the driver that it came with… which is older. The fact that “nvidia-settings confirms that I’m using the 331.20 driver” means you should be all set :)