How to install Nvidia Driver and Tensorflow/Pytorch GPU version in Ubuntu/PopOS 22.04 at HP Zbook Studio G8 laptop

1. Upgrade HP bios 

You could directly use online bios update to update your bios fireware.

Reboot -> F2 -> Esc -> Set up WiFi -> reboot -> F10 -> update bios in a online way

Or you could use Windows system to do the update:
https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/ish_3894564-1633733-16

2. Switch to integrated graphics only mode

In popos, you can do it in right-top-corner icon, power settings.
In ubuntu, you can do it in nvidia-settings -> profile-settings -> use integrated graphics
reboot

3. Use gcc-12

which gcc

# if gcc is not gcc-12, then do the following
sudo rm /usr/bin/gcc
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-12 /usr/bin/gcc

4. Install nvidia special driver for your special gpu version

For me, it’s GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile.
From the nvidia driver download page, you could download a file like NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-525.105.17.run
https://www.nvidia.com/download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
Then you do the following:

sudo chmod 777 NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-525.105.17.run
sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-525.105.17.run

5. Switch back to nvidia graphics only mode

reboot
Now, you should be able to use nvidia-smi to see the real-time gpu memory info

6. Install anaconda

https://conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/user-guide/install/linux.html#installing-on-linux
Download a file look like Anaconda3-2023.03-Linux-x86_64.sh

sudo chmod 777 Anaconda3-2023.03-Linux-x86_64.sh
sudo ./Anaconda3-2023.03-Linux-x86_64.sh

7. Install cuda by using conda

Now, open a new terminal window
Then, try to install tensorflow by using script from tensorflow official documentation:
https://www.tensorflow.org/install/pip

conda install -c conda-forge cudatoolkit=11.8.0
python3 -m pip install nvidia-cudnn-cu11==8.6.0.163 tensorflow==2.12.*
mkdir -p $CONDA_PREFIX/etc/conda/activate.d
echo 'CUDNN_PATH=$(dirname $(python -c "import nvidia.cudnn;print(nvidia.cudnn.__file__)"))' >> $CONDA_PREFIX/etc/conda/activate.d/env_vars.sh
echo 'export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$CONDA_PREFIX/lib/:$CUDNN_PATH/lib' >> $CONDA_PREFIX/etc/conda/activate.d/env_vars.sh
source $CONDA_PREFIX/etc/conda/activate.d/env_vars.sh
# Verify install:
python3 -c "import tensorflow as tf; print(tf.config.list_physical_devices('GPU'))"

8. Done

author: @yingshaoxo

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