Issue with Ubuntu 18.04 and CUDA 9.1

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I follow the instruction in https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-installation-guide-linux/index.html#mandatory-post. At the step "2.6. Download the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit", there is not a option of Ubuntu 18.04, so I choose Ubuntu 17.04. But at the step "7.1.2. POWER9 Setup", I create the service file as example but I find at the path

/var/run/nvidia-persistenced

there is not a PIDFile named

nvidia-persistenced.pid

after I run the command:

$ sudo systemctl enable nvidia-persistenced

terminal shows:

    The unit files have no installation config (WantedBy, RequiredBy, Also, Alias
settings in the [Install] section, and DefaultInstance for template units).
This means they are not meant to be enabled using systemctl.
Possible reasons for having this kind of units are:
1) A unit may be statically enabled by being symlinked from another unit's
   .wants/ or .requires/ directory.
2) A unit's purpose may be to act as a helper for some other unit which has
   a requirement dependency on it.
3) A unit may be started when needed via activation (socket, path, timer,
   D-Bus, udev, scripted systemctl call, ...).
4) In case of template units, the unit is meant to be enabled with some
   instance name specified.

In addition, there also another error about nvidia. When I try to run $ nvidia- or $ nvidia-smi, always shows no command and NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.

I think I install CUDA and CUDA-drivers correctly because there is not error showed when i install both of them. So i think maybe there are something wrong about nvidia-persistenced.

I have read another Questions How do I enable nvidia-persistenced.service?, but it seems it does not solve it.

The cuda 9.1 is now in the 18.04 official repositories and installs with sudo apt install nvidia-cuda-toolkit. For the NVIDIA drivers themselves, best to install them from the graphics-drivers ppa. See https://askubuntu.com/questions/61396/how-do-i-install-the-nvidia-drivers and it still works with Ubuntu 18.04 and you can install the nvidia-driver-396 as the newest driver. — Terrance, May 03 '18 at 03:29
If you get a stuck, I did write an answer last night, but updated it this evening and it should work fine: https://askubuntu.com/a/1030901/231142 — Terrance, May 03 '18 at 04:39

Issue with Ubuntu 18.04 and CUDA 9.1

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