How to Install nvidia-cuda-toolkit software package in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

How to Install nvidia-cuda-toolkit software package in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

nvidia-cuda-toolkit software package provides NVIDIA CUDA toolkit, you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) by running the commands given below on the terminal,

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-cuda-toolkit 

nvidia-cuda-toolkit is installed in your system.

Make ensure the nvidia-cuda-toolkit package were installed using the commands given below,

$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep nvidia-cuda-toolkit *

You will get with nvidia-cuda-toolkit package name, version, architecture and description in a table

nvidia-cuda-toolkit package basic information:

Distro Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr
Section Development
Package nvidia-cuda-toolkit
Version 5.5.22-3ubuntu1
Description NVIDIA CUDA toolkit
Sub Section devel


See Also, How to uninstall or remove nvidia-cuda-toolkit software package from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)?