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 ran
$ sudo apt-get install freeglut3-dev build-essential libx11-dev libxmu-dev libxi-dev libgl1-mesa-glx libglu1-mesa libglu1-mesa-dev
I can't seem to find nvcc. I ran
$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/cuda-5.0/lib:/usr/local/cuda-5.0/lib64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
nvcc -v reports that the compiler is not found:
nvcc -V No command 'nvcc' found, did you mean: Command 'nvlc' from package 'vlc-nox' (universe) nvcc: command not found
The getting started guide hasn't been of much help here: http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-getting-started-guide-for-linux/index.html
What's going on here? Do I need to install the gpu computing sdk samples to get nvcc? :/
Consider installing CUDA 5.5 in Ubuntu 12.04. The 5.5 release has special leverages to install it as a debian package. See the following links,
https://developer.nvidia.com/content/cudacasts-episode-5-install-cuda-55-linux-package-manager
https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads
It is truly much easier than all that you have tried till now ! personal experience ! :-)
Failing to install samples is a common problem as outlines in https://sn0v.wordpress.com/2012/12/07/installing-cuda-5-on-ubuntu-12-04/#comment-869
The solution is to find "libglut.so" and create a soft-link to it under /usr/lib. Then re-run the cuda*.run and choose to install only the samples.
sudo find /usr -name libglut\*
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglut.so.3 /usr/lib/libglut.so
sudo ./cuda*.run #when prompted only install samples. ie do not install drivers and toolkit.
works for me on ubuntu 12.04 hope it works for you too
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.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13998834/cuda-nvcc-compiler-setup-ubuntu-12-04