I’m trying to install CUDA 11.4 on my Ubuntu 21.04 machine, which has a Tesla K40m installed.
Because the K40 is so old, it is not supported by the latest nvidia-driver-495. I have driver 470.74 installed, which works well.
I’ve followed the directions to add the Ubuntu 20.04 Nvidia repo and tried
sudo apt install cuda-11-4
This has a dependency on nvidia driver >=470.52.02 so it tries to update to the latest version.
Is there any way to install cuda-11-4 without upgrading nvidia-driver-470 to nvidia-driver-495? Trying
sudo apt-mark hold nvidia-driver-470
to lock the driver version, then sudo apt install cuda-11-4 results in unmet dependencies issues:
$ sudo apt install cuda-11-4
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
nvidia-driver-470 : Depends: libnvidia-gl-470 (= 470.74-0ubuntu0.21.04.1) but it is not installable
Depends: nvidia-dkms-470 (<= 470.74-1)
Depends: nvidia-dkms-470 (>= 470.74)
Depends: nvidia-kernel-common-470 (<= 470.74-1) but it is not installable
Depends: nvidia-kernel-common-470 (>= 470.74) but it is not installable
Depends: nvidia-kernel-source-470 (= 470.74-0ubuntu0.21.04.1) but it is not installable
Depends: libnvidia-compute-470 (= 470.74-0ubuntu0.21.04.1) but it is not installable
Depends: libnvidia-extra-470 (= 470.74-0ubuntu0.21.04.1) but it is not installable
Depends: nvidia-compute-utils-470 (= 470.74-0ubuntu0.21.04.1) but it is not installable
Depends: libnvidia-decode-470 (= 470.74-0ubuntu0.21.04.1) but it is not installable
Depends: libnvidia-encode-470 (= 470.74-0ubuntu0.21.04.1) but it is not installable
Depends: nvidia-utils-470 (= 470.74-0ubuntu0.21.04.1) but it is not installable
Depends: xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-470 (= 470.74-0ubuntu0.21.04.1) but it is not installable
Depends: libnvidia-cfg1-470 (= 470.74-0ubuntu0.21.04.1) but it is not installable
Depends: libnvidia-ifr1-470 (= 470.74-0ubuntu0.21.04.1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libnvidia-fbc1-470 (= 470.74-0ubuntu0.21.04.1) but it is not installable
Recommends: libnvidia-compute-470:i386 (= 470.74-0ubuntu0.21.04.1)
Recommends: libnvidia-decode-470:i386 (= 470.74-0ubuntu0.21.04.1)
Recommends: libnvidia-encode-470:i386 (= 470.74-0ubuntu0.21.04.1)
Recommends: libnvidia-ifr1-470:i386 (= 470.74-0ubuntu0.21.04.1)
Recommends: libnvidia-fbc1-470:i386 (= 470.74-0ubuntu0.21.04.1)
Recommends: libnvidia-gl-470:i386 (= 470.74-0ubuntu0.21.04.1)
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.
