Ubuntu 18.04 CUDA/cuDNN Installation

Tutorial of installing CUDA and cuDNN for Nvidia GPU.

Remove older version of CUDA/CuDNN

Go to /usr/local/ see if there are any cuda-x.x folder. Then remove it with:

sudo rm -rf /usr/local/cuda-x.x/

Install CUDA

• Download from https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit
  Choose the way with your environment, last step choose deb(local)

• Follow the instruction

In this time, like this:

• After installation complete, add below PATH variable to the shelrc (bashrc) you use: [Ref]

• CUDA installed

Install CuDNN

• Download package from https://developer.nvidia.com/rdp/cudnn-archive. Select the support version of CUDA (this time I used are CUDA11.2 & cuDNN8.1.0). Then choose cuDNN Library for Linux(x86_64)

• Extract it and copy to the right place

• Verify Version

• cuDNN installed