ncu command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

ncu: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ncu: command not found

Solutions to ncu: command not found

How To Fix ncu: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ncu is provided by nsight-compute package.

nsight-compute is:

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.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install nsight-compute

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install nsight-compute.

sudo apt -y install nsight-compute

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install nsight-compute

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix ncu command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.