Incongruent instructions for drivers’ installation #374
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Hello,
I have the same issue as in here and I was asking myself if the drivers were installed incorretly as the instructions are incogruent and some clarification would be appricitated:
In the case of ubuntu 22.04, at point 2.7 in the tutorial if the link to the download page is followed and the corresponding version is selected (installer type deb(local)). The instructions are as follows:
wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2204/x86_64/cuda-ubuntu2204.pin
sudo mv cuda-ubuntu2204.pin /etc/apt/preferences.d/cuda-repository-pin-600
wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/12.3.2/local_installers/cuda-repo-ubuntu2204-12-3-local_12.3.2-545.23.08-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i cuda-repo-ubuntu2204-12-3-local_12.3.2-545.23.08-1_amd64.deb
sudo cp /var/cuda-repo-ubuntu2204-12-3-local/cuda-*-keyring.gpg /usr/share/keyrings/
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install cuda-toolkit-12-3
followed by either:
sudo apt-get install -y cuda-drivers
or
sudo apt-get install -y nvidia-kernel-open-545
sudo apt-get install -y cuda-drivers-545
for the different kernel flavors.
On the other hand following the instructions at the tutorial page (still for ubuntu), it is suggested that:
sudo dpkg -i cuda-repo-<distro>_<version>_<architecture>.deb
sudo cp /var/cuda-repo-<distro>-X-Y-local/cuda-*-keyring.gpg /usr/share/keyrings/
wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/<distro>/x86_64/cuda-<distro>.pin
sudo mv cuda-<distro>.pin /etc/apt/preferences.d/cuda-repository-pin-600
are executed (exchanging <>,X,Y with the individual values of course)
and then
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cuda-toolkit
sudo apt-get install nvidia-gds
(rebooting here)
Finally adding to PATH
export PATH=/usr/local/cuda-12.2/bin${PATH:+:${PATH}}
So how should this be handled? I suppose only one of the two should be followed. I encountered a simmilar issue when istalling the drivers on Debian 12.
Thx for any help.