Trying to get CUDA 7.5 to work with GCC 5.x

Question

So, if you try to use nvcc when the system GCC is version 5 and up, you get an \"unsupported version\" error. But - I\'ve heard people report that they\'ve just commented this o

Answer 1

Consider installing and temporary selecting an older version of the gcc:

apt-get install gcc-4.8

Then update your alternatives:

update-alternatives --remove-all gcc
update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-4.8 10

After compiling TensorFlow you can use previous version of gcc calling above command with proper path to /usr/bin/gcc-5.x.