CUDNN Introduction and Installation

The NVIDIA CUDA ® Deep Neural Network library (cuDNN) is a GPU-accelerated library of primitives for  deep neural networks. cuDNN provides highly tuned implementations for standard routines such as forward and backward convolution, attention, matmul, pooling, and normalization.

wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cudnn/9.10.2/local_installers/cudnn-local-repo-ubuntu2404-9.10.2_1.0-1_amd64.debsudo

dpkg -i cudnn-local-repo-ubuntu2404-9.10.2_1.0-1_amd64.deb

sudo cp /var/cudnn-local-repo-ubuntu2404-9.10.2/cudnn-*-keyring.gpg /usr/share/keyrings/

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get -y install cudnn

sudo apt-get -y install cudnn-cuda-12

dpkg -l | grep cuda

I can see more packages related to CUDNN

Reference link

https://developer.nvidia.com/cudnn-downloads?target_os=Linux&amp ;target_arch=x86_64& Distribution=Ubuntu& target_version=24.04& target_type=deb_local

Published on July 13, 2025