NVIDIA Driver Installation Quickstart Guide
This edition of Quickstart guide describes the installation process of NVIDIA® Drivers for supported Linux distributions.
Introduction
The purpose of this document is to provide some quick start notes for installing NVIDIA drivers on Linux distributions for servers. For more comprehensive information on installing CUDA Toolkit and drivers on various Linux distributions (for both workstation and server variants), refer to the CUDA Installation Guide for Linux.
1.1. Pre-Installation Requirements
- Verify the system has a CUDA-capable GPU
- Verify the system is running a supported version of Linux
- Verify the system has build tools such as make, gcc installed
- Verify the system has correct Linux kernel headers
For more detailed steps on completing each of these pre-installation steps, refer to the pre-installation actions in the CUDA Installation Guide for Linux.
1.2. Installer Formats
2. Runfile Installers
NVIDIA drivers are available as .run installer packages for use with Linux distributions from the NVIDIA driver downloads site. Select the .run package for your GPU product.
This page also includes links to all the current and previous driver releases: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix.
The .run can also be downloaded using wget or curl as shown in the example below:
$ BASE_URL=https://us.download.nvidia.com/tesla
$ DRIVER_VERSION=450.80.02
$ curl -fSsl -O $BASE_URL/$DRIVER_VERSION/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-$DRIVER_VERSION.run
Once the .run installer has been downloaded, the NVIDIA driver can be installed:
$ sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-$DRIVER_VERSION.run
Follow the prompts on the screen during the installation. For more advanced options on using the .run installer, see the --help option or refer to the README.
3. Package Managers
The Package Manager installation interfaces with your system's package management system. When using RPM or Deb, the downloaded package is a repository package. Such a package only informs the package manager where to find the actual installation packages, but will not install them.
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