Installing Cuda on Ubuntu 11.10
To install Cuda, I followed some hints on bottom ofthis thread, but also had to fix a few more issues.
Download the current Cuda Toolkit for Ubuntu and the GPU Computing SDK, and save the .run files somewhere.
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Install and select gcc/g++ 4.4
sudo apt-get install \ gcc-4.4 g++-4.4 build-essential sudo update-alternatives \ --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-4.6 40 \ --slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-4.6 sudo update-alternatives \ --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-4.4 60 \ --slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-4.4
Check with
sudo update-alternatives —config gcc gcc —version
that you have now version 4.4.x of the compilers.
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Install the nvidia drivers
sudo apt-get install \ nvidia-current\ nvidia-current-dev\ nvidia-current-updates\ nvidia-current-updates-dev
As root, run the two .run files from nvidia (see 1.).
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For compiling the SDK examples, you also need to install
sudo apt-get install freeglut3-dev libxi-dev
and create the following links
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libXmu.so.6 /usr/lib/libXmu.so sudo ln -s /usr/lib/nvidia-173/libGL.so /usr/lib/libGL.so
Then go to the
NVIDIA_GPU_COMPUTING_SDK_...
folder. In the fileC/common/common.mk
change the lineLINKFLAGS +=
to
LINKFLAGS += -L/usr/lib/nvidia-current
Then run make. This should compile everything, indicating that the CUDA stuff works.