Post-installation Actions

The post-installation actions must be manually performed.

Persistence Daemon

NVIDIA is providing a user-space daemon on Linux to support persistence of driver state across CUDA job runs. The daemon approach provides a more elegant and robust solution to this problem than persistence mode. For more details on the NVIDIA Persistence Daemon, see the documentation here.

All the distribution packages contain a systemd preset to enable it automatically if installed as a dependency of other driver components. It can be restarted manually by running:

# systemctl restart nvidia-persistenced

Verify the Driver Version

If you installed the driver, verify that the correct version of it is loaded. When the driver is loaded, the driver version can be found by executing the following command:

$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version

Local Repository Removal

Removal of the local repository installer is recommended after installation of the driver.

Amazon Linux 2023, Fedora 42, KylinOS 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8/9/10, Rocky Linux 8/9/10, Oracle Linux 8/9

# dnf remove nvidia-driver-local-repo\*

Azure Linux 2/3

# tdnf remove nvidia-driver-local-repo-\*

Ubuntu 22.04/24.04, Debian 12

# apt remove --purge nvidia-driver-local-repo\*

OpenSUSE Leap 15, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15

# zypper remove nvidia-driver-local-repo\*