Install CUDA 11.2, cuDNN 8.1.0, PyTorch v1.8.0 (or v1.9.0), and python 3.9 on RTX3090 for deep learning

Yifan Guo
Analytics Vidhya
Published in
5 min readMar 12, 2021

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This tutorial is tested with RTX3090 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. The refereed installation guide is from: https://medium.com/@dun.chwong/the-ultimate-guide-ubuntu-18-04-37bae511efb0

1. Configuration

Ubuntu setup by running the following commands.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade -y
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential cmake unzip pkg-config
sudo apt-get install -y libxmu-dev libxi-dev libglu1-mesa libglu1-mesa-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libjpeg-dev libpng-dev libtiff-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev libv4l-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libxvidcore-dev libx264-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libgtk-3-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libopenblas-dev libatlas-base-dev liblapack-dev gfortran
sudo apt-get install -y libhdf5-serial-dev graphviz
sudo apt-get install -y python3-dev python3-tk python-imaging-tk
sudo apt-get install -y linux-image-generic linux-image-extra-virtual
sudo apt-get install -y linux-source linux-headers-generic

2. Nvidia (Driver, CUDA, cuDNN)

2.1 Install Nvidia Driver

Step 1: Remove existing Nvidia drivers if any

sudo apt-get purge nvidia*

Step 2: Add Graphic Drivers PPA

sudo add-apt-repository…

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