How to complete a dpkg cuBLAS Patch Update to CUDA 8 installation in 16.04?

Question

I'm new to Ubuntu. I downloaded cuda-repo-ubuntu1604-8-0-local-cublas-performance-update_8.0.61-1_amd64.deb for Ubuntu 16.04 from the official CUDA Toolkit Download | CUDA Developer website.

I ran these two commands from the terminal:

sudo dpkg -i cuda-repo-ubuntu1604-8-0-local-cublas-performance-update_8.0.61-1_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get update

What is the name of the package required to install to complete the installation?

sudo apt-get install <name?>

Solution 1

Open the terminal and type:

sudo dpkg -i cuda-repo-ubuntu1604-8-0-local-cublas-performance-update_8.0.61-1_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get update  
sudo apt-get install cuda  

Update the PATH variable to include the CUDA binaries folder. To update it, edit the /etc/environment file.

sudo nano /etc/environment  

After editing the /etc/environment file will look like this.

PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/usr/local/cuda-8.0/bin"

If there are other locations in your PATH don't remove them, leave them in the PATH too.

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Validate the CUDA installation.

nvcc --version

The results of nvcc --version should show that NVIDIA Cuda is installed.

Solution 2

In certain cases an install will don't work because the package is already installed.

Instead of install, just do an upgrade

sudo apt-get upgrade cuda

Comments

[ubfan1]

You probably need to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH too, to /usr/local/cuda-8.0/lib64 (or add it to an existing LD_LIBRARY_PATH).