In this article, I will share some of my experience on installing NVIDIA driver and CUDA on Linux OS. Here I mainly use Ubuntu as example. Comments for CentOS/Fedora are also provided as much as I can.

Table of Contents

• Install NVIDIA Graphics Driver via apt-get
• Install NVIDIA Graphics Driver via runfile
  • Remove Previous Installations (Important)
  • Download the Driver
  • Install Dependencies
  • Creat Blacklist for Nouveau Driver

• Stop lightdm/gdm/kdm