How to Install and Uninstall nvidia-cudnn Package on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)

Last updated: February 23,2025

You can also install and uninstall the nvidia-cudnn on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Ubuntu system

Kubuntu 22.04 LTS
Lubuntu 22.04 LTS
Xubuntu 22.04 LTS
Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS
Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS
Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS
Zorin OS 16 / Zorin OS 17
Ubuntu Budgie 22.04

1. Install "nvidia-cudnn" package

Please follow the steps below to install nvidia-cudnn on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "nvidia-cudnn" package

Learn how to uninstall nvidia-cudnn on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the nvidia-cudnn package on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)

Package: nvidia-cudnn
Architecture: amd64
Version: 8.2.4.15~cuda11.4
Priority: optional
Section: multiverse/libs
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian NVIDIA Maintainers
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 44
Provides: libcudnn.so
Pre-Depends: nvidia-cuda-toolkit, dpkg-dev, wget
Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0
Filename: pool/multiverse/n/nvidia-cudnn/nvidia-cudnn_8.2.4.15~cuda11.4_amd64.deb
Size: 13234
MD5sum: 2d49d9bc6aaf12f74b7c10e6105057b2
SHA1: 7e43ccd8eb899c73321ed357dae1070521513783
SHA256: 63110b8122d2c6ca63c165297fcb2baa18ebc66eb4754e50df5cdc299b07f02c
SHA512: 3c9feddd3034a470d5a8ca1475245af7f916b4e15a499211a2ce53d7b0a514545de9aa4728b0e530171ba03b7d0daf5a1962ed3a44c6ede0595230a4cb2f0f6d
Homepage: https://developer.nvidia.com/cudnn
Description: NVIDIA CUDA Deep Neural Network library (install script)
Description-md5: aff2caf53c29838279b63dd35dec1798