Question about nvidia-cuda-toolkit

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 11:05:50PM -0400, Steven Gutstein wrote:
> I'm trying to understand the differences between  the files installed by
> cuda_5.0.35_linux_64_ubuntu11.10-1.run, which can be downloaded from the
> NVIDIA website and the nvidia-cuda-toolkit Debian package. I haven't found
> very much by searching the web and chat rooms.
> 
> I've noticed that the samples included with the CUDA toolkit from Nvidia's
> website are missing from the Debian package as are some other files. For
> example, some files that were placed in subdirectories of
> /usr/local/cuda-5.0/include, such as 'no_throw_free.h', 'free.h' and others
> seem to be missing.

That file seems to be part of libthrust that nvidia seems to be including.
Debian has libthrust but not from nvidia, so perhaps nvidia ships an
old version with files the current version no longer has.  No idea.

> Are there other Debian packages I should install to get the full
> capabilities of NVIDIA's download? Without the sample files, how can I test
> that I've installed CUDA correctly (since I haven't learned it yet). If I
> decide to rely upon NVIDIA's toolkit, will that adversely effect my use of
> other Debian CUDA packages - e.g. PyCuda?

I believe installing 'nvidia-cuda-dev' should pull in everything you need
(including libthrust-dev).

You may want 'nvidia-cuda-doc' as well, since it has the documentation
and examples.

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Len Sorensen