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Install on Pop!_OS

Install The latest NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit

To install the CUDA toolkit, please run this command:

sudo apt install system76-cuda-latest

To install the cuDNN library, please run this command:

sudo apt install system76-cudnn-11.2

For older releases of The NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit

These versions are only in Pop 21.04

To install CUDA 11.1

sudo apt install system76-cuda-11.1

For the respective cuDNN library:

sudo apt install system76-cudnn-11.1

These versions are only in Pop 20.04 LTS

To install CUDA 10.0:

sudo apt install system76-cuda-10.0

For the respective cuDNN library:

sudo apt install system76-cudnn-10.0

To install CUDA 10.1:

sudo apt install system76-cuda-10.1

For the respective cuDNN library:

sudo apt install system76-cudnn-10.1

To install CUDA 10.2:

sudo apt install system76-cuda-10.2

For the respective cuDNN library:

sudo apt install system76-cudnn-10.2

Switch between different versions

You can switch between each CUDA version with the following command:

sudo update-alternatives --config cuda

To verify installation, run this command to see the current version of the NVIDIA CUDA compiler:

nvcc -V

You can check the version of cuDNN with this command:

cat /usr/lib/cuda/include/cudnn_version.h | grep CUDNN_MAJOR -A 2       

Not running Pop!_OS?

The previous instructions will work with Pop!_OS out of the box but for Ubuntu and other Debian derivatives the following commands will need to be run first:

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

echo "deb http://apt.pop-os.org/proprietary focal main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pop-proprietary.list
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key 204DD8AEC33A7AFF
sudo apt update

Ubuntu 21.04

echo "deb http://apt.pop-os.org/proprietary hirsute main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pop-proprietary.list
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key 204DD8AEC33A7AFF
sudo apt update

*These packages have been tested with the System76 NVIDIA driver only.

The following article will go over installing the System76 NVIDIA driver.