Install NVIDIA CUDA on Ubuntu 17.04

at15
1 min readMay 14, 2017

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The official download page only have package for 16.04 and 14.04, but actually Ubuntu 17.04 can install CUDA via apt directly. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/zesty/+source/nvidia-cuda-toolkit

Install

Assume you already have NVIDIA graphic driver installed and just need CUDA. Only the following command is needed.

sudo apt-get install nvidia-cuda-dev nvidia-cuda-toolkit nvidia-nsight

NOTE: Ubuntu 17.04 use GCC6, which is not supported by nvcc , the package will install clang-3.8 (the default clang version for 17.04 is clang 4.0, they can co-exist).

Compile

Compile cuda code using nvcc -ccbin clang-3.8 hello-world.cu , remember to use cu as suffix instead of c other wise you will have error like the following

nvcc warning : The ‘compute_20’, ‘sm_20’, and ‘sm_21’ architectures are deprecated, and may be removed in a future release (Use -Wno-deprecated-gpu-targets to suppress warning).
square.c:6:1: error: unknown type name ‘__global__’
__global__ void cube(float * d_out, float * d_in){

You can use the following code to test if you have correct installation

Reference

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