Re: upgrade to jessie from wheezy with cuda problems

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:32:26AM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> My answer seems to have disappeared. I summarize here.
> 
>  "modinfo nvidia-curred" works well. CUDA libraries are installed.
> 
> For nvidia-cuda-toolkit, nvidia offers SDK packages for Ubuntu, not for
> Debian. I don't like to get into troubles with Ubuntu, which, unlike
> LinuxMINT, is not compatible with Debian.
> 
> I tried GNU "CUDA-Z-07.189.run" (don't remember from where it was
> downloaded). However it does not find the shared libXrender.so.1, even if
> made available into the same folder of CUDA-Z.
> 
> Actually
> 
> root@gig64:/home/francesco# apt-file search libXrender.so.1
> libxrender1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXrender.so.1
> libxrender1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXrender.so.1.3.0
> libxrender1-dbg: /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXrender.so.1.3.0
> root@gig64:/home/francesco#
> 
> francesco@gig64:~$ echo $PATH
> /opt/namd2.9_cuda4.0_2012-09-26/bin:/opt/namd2.9_cuda4.0_2012-09-26/bin:/opt/namd2.9_cuda4.0_2012-09-26/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/opt/amber12/bin:/opt/amber10/bin:/opt/UCSF/Chimera64-2012-10-10/bin:/opt/namd2.9_cuda4.0_2012-09-26/bin/namd2:/opt/amber12/bin:/opt/amber10/bin:/opt/UCSF/Chimera64-2012-10-10/bin:/opt/namd2.9_cuda4.0_2012-09-26/bin/namd2:/opt/amber12/bin:/opt/amber10/bin:/opt/UCSF/Chimera64-2012-10-10/bin:/opt/namd2.9_cuda4.0_2012-09-26/bin/namd2
> francesco@gig64:~$
> 
> Should /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu be put on my path explicitly?

The PATH is not for libraries.  LD_LIBRARY_PATH is, as is /etc/ld.so.conf
stuff.

Also is what you downloaded 32 or 64 bit?  Try:

ldd CUDA-Z-07.189.run

See what it is looking for.

-- 
Len Sorensen