Upgrade NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit to 13.1.0 on Fedora 43/42/41
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This is guide, howto upgrade manually installed NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit to latest 13.1.0 on Fedora 43/42/41. I assume here that you have installed NVIDIA CUDA successfully using my Install NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit on Fedora Guide. Make sure you are using NVIDIA 595.58.03 (or newer 595.xx) drivers. As always remember backup important files before doing anything!
Check video version of guide, howto Upgrade NVIDIA CUDA on Fedora:
Support inttf:
3. Upgrade NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit to latest 13.1.0 version on Fedora 43/42/41⌗
3.1 Check Current NVIDIA CUDA version⌗
Versioning on real installation is a bit diffent than installer file endings.
grep -A1 "CUDA SDK" /usr/local/cuda/version.json
nvcc -V
3.2 Download NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 13.1.0⌗
Download NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 13.1.0 runfile (local) from official NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit download page.
cd ~/Downloads
wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/13.1.0/local_installers/cuda_13.1.0_590.44.01_linux.run
3.3 Make NVIDIA CUDA installer executable⌗
chmod +x cuda_13.1.0*.run
3.4 Change root user⌗
su -
## OR ##
sudo -i
3.5 Run NVIDIA CUDA Binary and Install NVIDIA CUDA 13.1.0⌗
Fedora 43/42/41⌗
/home/<username>/Downloads/cuda_13.1.0_590.44.01_linux.run
## OR full path / full file name ##
./cuda_13.1.0_590.44.01_linux.run
/path/to/cuda_13.1.0_590.44.01_linux.run
Accept NVIDIA CUDA 13.1.0 License Agreement⌗
Install/Upgrade NVIDIA CUDA, but uncheck NVIDIA Drivers⌗
You can move here using arrows (Up/Down: Move, Left/Right: Expand, Enter/Space: Select and ‘A’: for Advanced Options)
Upgrade all components⌗
3.6 Update CUDA Samples from NVIDIA git repo⌗
Run following as normal user. I assume here you have already cloned cuda-samples git repo.
cd ~/cuda-samples
git pull
3.7 Support inttf⌗
Thats all!
Please let me know if you have any problems!