Commands for NVIDIA install on Ubuntu 16.04
Remove the kernel you don’t need
Check your boot partition :
df -h
/dev/sda1 236M 224M 0 100% /boot
OMG.
Get your current kernel :
uname -r
4.4.0-43-generic
List installed kernels :
dpkg --list 'linux-image*'
Remove some of them :
sudo apt-get remove linux-image-4.4.0-21-generic linux-image-4.4.0-45-generic linux-image-4.4.0-47-generic linux-image-4.4.0-51-generic
NB : if your partition /boot is full and your install broken, it might ask you to run apt-get -f install which might not work as well, due to space constraints. You can erase manually the kernels you do not need :
rm /boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-42-generic
Remove also your NVIDIA drivers :
sudo apt-get purge nvidia*
root@s3:~# dpkg --list 'nvidia*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-=====================================-=======================-=======================-================================================================================
un nvidia-legacy-340xx-vdpau-driver <none> <none> (no description available)
un nvidia-libopencl1-dev <none> <none> (no description available)
un nvidia-vdpau-driver <none> <none> (no description available)
Remove the packages that you don’t need anymore :
sudo apt-get autoremove
Check your boot partition :
df -h
/dev/sda1 236M 97M 127M 44% /boot
Update :
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade
Install kernel extras if not already installed :
sudo apt-get install -y linux-image-extra-`uname -r`
and reboot
sudo reboot
Install NVIDIA drivers from NVIDIA
Download and install latest drivers :
wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/375.20/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-375.20.run
chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-375.20.run
sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-375.20.run
The first bash command is :
nvidia-smi
If the command returns
Failed to initialize NVML: Driver/library version mismatch
try again the install procedure.
Install NVIDIA drivers from Ubuntu
You can install
sudo apt install ubuntu-drivers-common
to list the devices
ubuntu-drivers devices
root@s3:~# ubuntu-drivers devices
== /sys/devices/pci0000:80/0000:80:03.0/0000:85:00.0/0000:86:10.0/0000:88:00.0 ==
model : GK210GL [Tesla K80]
vendor : NVIDIA Corporation
modalias : pci:v000010DEd0000102Dsv000010DEsd0000106Cbc03sc02i00
driver : nvidia-367 - third-party free
driver : nvidia-370 - third-party free
driver : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin
driver : nvidia-375 - third-party free recommended
== cpu-microcode.py ==
driver : intel-microcode - distro non-free
and either install automatically
sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
or automatically
sudo apt-get install nvidia-375
Install Cuda 8
Check your Ubuntu version
lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial
Install CUDA 8 for Ubuntu 16.04 :
wget http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu1604/x86_64/cuda-repo-ubuntu1604_8.0.44-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i cuda-repo-ubuntu1604_8.0.44-1_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cuda