Getting up and running on virtual machine with cuda

cuda_toolkit.md

# list all PCI devices lspci

# Find the nvidia package

$ whereis nvidia
nvidia: /usr/lib/nvidia /usr/share/nvidia

# download nvidia-smi sudo apt install nvidia-cuda-toolkit

# Navigate here CUDA Toolkit Link:

# Options:

• Operating System: Linux
• Architecture: x86_64
• Distribution: Ubuntu
• Version: 18.04
• Installer Type: deb (local)

# copy the installation instructions (look like below)

wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu1804/x86_64/cuda-ubuntu1804.pin
sudo mv cuda-ubuntu1804.pin /etc/apt/preferences.d/cuda-repository-pin-600
wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/11.3.1/local_installers/cuda-repo-ubuntu1804-11-3-local_11.3.1-465.19.01-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i cuda-repo-ubuntu1804-11-3-local_11.3.1-465.19.01-1_amd64.deb
sudo apt-key add /var/cuda-repo-ubuntu1804-11-3-local/7fa2af80.pub
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install cuda

if errors (unmet dependencies)

leest@LinuxGPU:~$ sudo apt-get -y install cuda
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... 0%
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 cuda : Depends: cuda-11-3 (>= 11.3.1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Solve this error

sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install freeglut3 freeglut3-dev libxi-dev libxmu-dev

# Download conda

• From here