Ubuntu 17.10 comes with CUDA 8 which relies on clang 3.8
(e.g. see this blogpost).

However, I'd like to install CUDA 9 and rely on GCC if possible. How can I do this?

Installation of NVIDIA driver 384

First we install a fresh Ubuntu 17.10 on a computer with an NVIDIA GPU and select "Install third-party software" during the process. Alternatively, we can add the graphics drivers repository manually:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa

sudo apt update

Then we install the most recent NVIDIA driver using apt:

sudo apt install nvidia-384 nvidia-384-dev

We verify the installation by running:

nvidia-smi

We should see an output which lists the NVIDIA 384 driver and our discrete NVIDIA GPU - similar to summarized table below:

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

| NVIDIA-SMI 384.90                 Driver Version: 384.90                    |

|                                                                             |

|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

|   0  Quadro M500M        Off  | 00000000:06:00.0 Off |                  N/A |

| N/A   48C    P0    N/A /  N/A |    943MiB /  2002MiB |     26%      Default |

+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

Preparation for installing of CUDA 9 + SDK

We install a number of build/dev packages which we require later:

sudo apt-get install g++ freeglut3-dev build-essential libx11-dev libxmu-dev libxi-dev libglu1-mesa libglu1-mesa-dev

We notice that the default gcc/g++ version on 17.10 is 7.2.0 (Ubuntu 7.2.0-8ubuntu3)
:

gcc -v

CUDA 9 requires gcc 6. Thus, we install it:

sudo apt install gcc-6

sudo apt install g++-6

Note that the default gcc version is still 7.2; can be checked by running gcc -v again.

Installation of CUDA 9 + SDK

From the CUDA Toolkit Archive, select one of the "runfile (local)" installation packages to download a version of CUDA 9, such as

wget https://developer.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/9.0/Prod/local_installers/cuda_9.0.176_384.81_linux-run

Make the downloaded file executable and run it using sudo:

chmod +x cuda_9.0.176_384.81_linux-run 

sudo ./cuda_9.0.176_384.81_linux-run --override

We install CUDA with the following configurations:

You are attempting to install on an unsupported configuration. Do you wish to continue?

y

Install NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86_64 384.81?

n

Install the CUDA 9.0 Toolkit?

y

Enter Toolkit Location

[default location]

Do you want to install a symbolic link at /usr/local/cuda?

y

Install the CUDA 9.0 Samples?

y

Enter CUDA Samples Location

[default location]

Set up symlinks for gcc/g++:

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-6 /usr/local/cuda/bin/gcc

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/g++-6 /usr/local/cuda/bin/g++

Test the CUDA 9 installation using the SDK

Build your favorite CUDA sample and run it:

cd ~/NVIDIA_CUDA-9.0_Samples/5_Simulations/smokeParticles

make

../../bin/x86_64/linux/release/smokeParticles 

You may like to set up gcc/g++ symlinks after the cuda install.

Getting this installed took more time than I would like to admit, and while the above answer is a good template, I had some additional steps required for my fresh install of Ubuntu 17.10:

blacklist nouveau

sudo vim /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

Add the following:

# this one might not be required for x86 32 bit users.

blacklist amd76x_edac 



blacklist vga16fb

blacklist nouveau

blacklist rivafb

blacklist nvidiafb

blacklist rivatv

Update initramfs disk

sudo update-initramfs -u

Stop gdm3

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm3 stop



sudo init 3

Get content

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa

sudo apt update

sudo apt install nvidia-384 nvidia-384-dev

sudo apt-get install g++ freeglut3-dev build-essential libx11-dev libxmu-dev libxi-dev libglu1-mesa libglu1-mesa-dev



nvidia-smi

Get the package

wget https://developer.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/9.0/Prod/local_installers/cuda_9.0.176_384.81_linux-run

Run with --override to override compiler choice

chmod +x cuda_9.0.176_384.81_linux-run 

sudo ./cuda_9.0.176_384.81_linux-run --override

After installing the package, I would get errors with nvidia-smi, so I suggest running the command again to verify it works. When I had issues, I would purge nvidia* and re-get it.

nvidia-smi

I followed the accepted answer (@ubashu) and everything went well (if not exactly the same, the instructions would lead to the correct path). I would only had the export to Path (as specified also on https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-installation-guide-linux/index.html#post-installation-actions)

export PATH=/usr/local/cuda-9.0/bin${PATH:+:${PATH}} 

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/cuda-9.0/lib64 ${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}}

After that you can use nvcc -V to check if the install really went well.