How To Install nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc on Debian 12.
What is nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc
nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc is:
The Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) enables NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) to be used for massively parallel general purpose computation.
This package provides the /usr/bin/cuda-gcc, /usr/bin/cuda-g++ symlinks to simplify building packages that need to be built with a CUDA-compatible compiler.
This package ensures a deterministic nvcc/gcc combination is used by default and is therefore recommended to be used as build dependency for all source packages needing nvcc for building.
There are three methods to install nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc on Debian 12. 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-cuda-toolkit-gcc 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-cuda-toolkit-gcc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc
Install nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc
Install nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc
How To Uninstall nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc on Debian 12
To uninstall only the nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc
Uninstall nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc
Remove nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc Configurations and Data
To remove nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc
Remove nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc
Dependencies
nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
