Attempts to add cuda software

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Doll, Margaret Ann wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 3:29 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
>> Doll, Margaret Ann wrote:
>> > I am running Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation release 6.3
>> (Santiago).
>> > I have a GeForce GT 620M card installed and have the
>> > NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.64 driver installed.
>> >
>> > sh cuda_5.0.35_linux_64_rhel6.x-1.run  fails.
>> >
>> > I do not ask for the Nvidia driver to be installed.  I do ask for the
>> > toolkit and samples.  The results
>> <snip>
>> Small problem:
>> "CUDA stands for the "Compute Unified Device Architecture", which is a
>> free software platform provided by NVIDIA. It enables users to control
>> GPUs by writing programs akin to C++. All CUDA softwares can be
>> downloaded from CUDA Zone. We used CUDA version 2.0."
>>
>> from <
>> http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~swright/GPUreconstruction/cuda_install.html>
>>
> Will cuda 2.1 work with Nvidia drivers  Linux-x86_64-304.64 ?

No idea. However, the only way yum will install it would be with the
Nvidia drivers. The only alternative I can think of is to d/l the rpm, and
do an rpm -ivh --no-deps (yum will, of course, complain afterwards that
the d/b was altered outside of yum).

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