CUDA Installation

Introduction

At long last, I have managed to get a CUDA installation working reliably alongside our ROS environments without breaking things (so far). Here are the steps you need to take:

Prep

Of course you need to make sure that you have the essentials

sudo apt-get install build-essential

Before we begin purge all drivers from your computer. This is important so as to not have any residual libraries

sudo apt-get purge nvidia-*

Download new drivers by going to the CUDA download area and download the CUDA 8.0 '.run' drivers for Debian/Ubuntu. It should be of the style:

cuda_7.5.18_linux.run

Separately extract new CUDA and nvidia drivers: 'mkdir ~/Downloads/nvidia_installers; cd /Downloads ./cuda_7.5.18_linux.run -extract=/Downloads/nvidia_installers;'