Ubuntu 16.04, CUDA 8 - CUDA driver version is insufficient for CUDA runtime version

Question

I\'ve installed the latest nvidia drivers (375.26) manually, and installed CUDA using cuda_8.0.44_linux.run (skipping the driver install there, since the bundled drivers are

Answer 1

Running

sudo apt-get purge nvidia-*

and reinstalling the drivers using

sudo apt-get install nvidia-375

solved it. Just for the record, the first time I updated the drivers using the GUI (Additional Drivers tab in Software & Updates).