nvidia-390 driver error during installation on Ubuntu 18.04

Accelerated Computing CUDA CUDA Setup and Installation
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Hi,

I’m trying to install CUDA on Ubuntu 18.04, following this video : How To Install Tensorflow-GPU (1.8) on Ubuntu 18.04 - YouTube

This is not my first attempt. I’ve followed other guides without success.

When I run

sudo apt install nvidia-390

, this is what I get:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 cuda-drivers : Depends: nvidia-396 (>= 396.44) but it is not going to be installed
 libcuda1-396 : Depends: nvidia-396 (>= 396.44) but it is not going to be installed
 nvidia-390 : Depends: nvidia-driver-390 but it is not going to be installed
 nvidia-396-dev : Depends: nvidia-396 (>= 396.44) but it is not going to be installed
 nvidia-opencl-icd-396 : Depends: nvidia-396 (>= 396.44) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

When I run

sudo apt --fix-broken install

, this is what I get:

Preparing to unpack .../nvidia-396_396.44-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking nvidia-396 (396.44-0ubuntu1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/nvidia-396_396.44-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/sbin/create-uvm-dev-node', which is also in package nvidia-kernel-common-390 390.48-0ubuntu3
dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/nvidia-396_396.44-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I guess there’s an issue with nvidia-396 (which I’ve installed during a previous attempt). The command “nvidia-smi” never worked by the way. What should I do ? How can I remove the package nvidia-396 ? How can I fix it ?

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I managed to solve this by running:

sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/nvidia-396_396.44-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb

I’ve had to do this to fix this recurring error since I installed the drivers directly from nVidia.

Hope this helps.

3

Installing Cuda anything on Ubuntu 18.04 is tricky and a major pain-in-the-a$$. It would be nice if we could finally get support for this from Nvidia. I wish there was less new stuff from Nvidia and more getting their existing development tools ported to the major new Ubuntu platform. Sigh…

Anyway, I have successfully installed and run Cuda 9.0, cuDNN, Tensorflow, Keras, dLib and OpenCV 3.4.1 on Ubuntu 18.04. After bricking my system twice trying so of the other suggested installation methods I found the easiest and most reliable way is to installer a version of the Ubuntu 18.04 server then add a desktop manager. You do not install everything just enough.

If you follow [url]Puget Custom Computers: PC Hardware Articles this exactly as he states it is quite easy to get going. There is a new post on install 9.2 [url]How to install CUDA 9.2 on Ubuntu 18.04 available now.

Good luck,
Doug

4

I had the same problem. Happened when I did software update. I couldn’t even log in. Tried many things. Eventually, I used advance Ubuntu manual to reboot into the recovery mode of the version before the update, then repeat the update. It solved the problem.

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It was really annoying, in the end with force installation i was able to. Thanks