How to Install and Uninstall nsight-compute Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: December 26,2024

1. Install "nsight-compute" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install nsight-compute on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install nsight-compute

2. Uninstall "nsight-compute" package

Please follow the steps below to uninstall nsight-compute on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):

$ sudo apt remove nsight-compute $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Information about the nsight-compute package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: nsight-compute
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2021.1.1.5~11.3.1-4
Priority: optional
Section: multiverse/devel
Source: nvidia-cuda-toolkit (11.3.1-4)
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian NVIDIA Maintainers
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 280932
Depends: libjs-html5shiv, libjs-jquery, nsight-compute-target (= 2021.1.1.5~11.3.1-4), libc6 (>= 2.17), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.9.14), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.12.6), libfreetype6 (>= 2.6), libgcc-s1 (>= 4.2), libgl1, libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libgssapi-krb5-2 (>= 1.17), libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.1), libstdc++6 (>= 4.8), libx11-6, libx11-xcb1 (>= 2:1.7.2), libxcb-glx0, libxcb1 (>= 1.8), libxext6, libxkbcommon-x11-0 (>= 0.5.0), libxkbcommon0 (>= 0.5.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.3.4)
Filename: pool/multiverse/n/nvidia-cuda-toolkit/nsight-compute_2021.1.1.5~11.3.1-4_amd64.deb
Size: 132283632
MD5sum: 5370abc663c16884b92e12b23a7410c1
SHA1: 3a472f44387ee7a01e3537f9aac57c5f2d3af962
SHA256: ea16af1c052a8f05dfac1bd323295917a9d16271983a200429fa28df99c16d44
SHA512: 170f0b0fec33cd84d577e1c77c71c116ff40655a45e7fd3e8a0b486d7c3cfbdc168af5ab0227439645bbaad7a36d90c6191c97f9910d9bf2aa43d897d71f6053
Homepage: https://developer.nvidia.com/nsight-compute
Description-en: NVIDIA Nsight Compute
NVIDIA Nsight Compute is an interactive kernel profiler for CUDA applications.
It provides detailed performance metrics and API debugging via a user
interface and command line tool. In addition, its baseline feature allows
users to compare results within the tool. Nsight Compute provides a
customizable and data-driven user interface and metric collection and can be
extended with analysis scripts for post-processing results.
Description-md5: ae73c3bbcf7dbd4b9a83f57a09c0d8b3