CUDA nvcc compiler setup Ubuntu 12.04

Question

I successfully installed the nvidia driver and toolkit for cuda 5 (but not the samples) on a 64 bit Ubuntu 12.04 box. The samples failed to install even though I previously

Answer 1

I met the problem during the installation, but I found the sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglut.so.3 /usr/lib/libglut.so is useless. My solution is to install freeglut3 first:

`sudo apt-get install freeglut3`  

then use:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libglut.so.3 /usr/lib/libglut.so

After this, CUDA sample is successfully installed.