nvprof command not found

Introduction

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

nvprof: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: nvprof: command not found

Solutions to nvprof: command not found

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

In Ubuntu nvprof is provided by nvidia-profiler package.

nvidia-profiler is:

The Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) enables NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) to be used for massively parallel general purpose computation.

OpenCL (Open Computing Language) is a multi-vendor open standard for general-purpose parallel programming of heterogeneous systems that include CPUs, GPUs and other processors.

This package contains the nvprof profiler.

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

sudo apt-get -y install nvidia-profiler

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

You can also use apt command to install nvidia-profiler.

sudo apt -y install nvidia-profiler

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

sudo aptitude install nvidia-profiler

Summary

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