How To Install nvidia-compute-utils-390 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nvidia-compute-utils-390
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is nvidia-compute-utils-390
nvidia-compute-utils-390 is:
This package provides utility binaries for paraller general purpose computing use cases with the NVIDIA driver.
CUDA MPS is a feature that allows multiple CUDA processes to share a single GPU context. CUDA MPS should be transparent to CUDA programs.
CUDA MPS requires a device that supports Unified Virtual Address (UVA) and has compute capability SM 3.5 or higher. Pre-CUDA 4.0 APIs are not supported under CUDA MPS.
Package: nvidia-compute-utils-390 Architecture: amd64 Version: 390.132-0ubuntu2 Priority: optional Section: restricted/libs Source: nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 217 Provides: nvidia-persistenced Depends: libnvidia-compute-390, adduser, libc6 (>= 2.2.5) Conflicts: nvidia-persistenced Replaces: nvidia-persistenced Filename: pool/restricted/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers-390/nvidia-compute-utils-390_390.132-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb Size: 68800 MD5sum: 2fe131ecead256289b305f3f5ef30caa SHA1: 8e6cd03bd83e09f1c0e35aa4434e8d67d75b74f6 SHA256: 646864ebdc69e68ff9e1650eec9ddce5ffb7b2543084705065f3dfbb53c37430 Homepage: http://www.nvidia.com Description-en: NVIDIA compute utilities This package provides utility binaries for paraller general purpose computing use cases with the NVIDIA driver.
CUDA MPS is a feature that allows multiple CUDA processes to share a single GPU context. CUDA MPS should be transparent to CUDA programs.
CUDA MPS requires a device that supports Unified Virtual Address (UVA) and has compute capability SM 3.5 or higher. Pre-CUDA 4.0 APIs are not supported under CUDA MPS.
There are three methods to install nvidia-compute-utils-390
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install nvidia-compute-utils-390 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nvidia-compute-utils-390
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nvidia-compute-utils-390
Install nvidia-compute-utils-390 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nvidia-compute-utils-390
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nvidia-compute-utils-390
Install nvidia-compute-utils-390 Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install nvidia-compute-utils-390
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nvidia-compute-utils-390
How To Uninstall nvidia-compute-utils-390 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the nvidia-compute-utils-390
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nvidia-compute-utils-390
Uninstall nvidia-compute-utils-390 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nvidia-compute-utils-390
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nvidia-compute-utils-390
Remove nvidia-compute-utils-390 Configurations and Data
To remove nvidia-compute-utils-390
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nvidia-compute-utils-390
Remove nvidia-compute-utils-390 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nvidia-compute-utils-390
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nvidia-compute-utils-390
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nvidia-compute-utils-390
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.