Using CUDA-enabled packages on non-NixOS systems?

[samuela]

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Cuda from nixkgs in non-NixOs case

Hello. I’m a newbie and I’m super confused about how even to formulate my question. A third of my confusion comes from not fully understanding how to properly configure things, and the other two thirds is about nvidia’s dependency infrastructure. I’m trying to make cuda from nixpkgs work in ubuntu. As far as I understand it gets built against the nvidia_x11 package. But it has a driver version different from the version installed in my system. This wiki entry Nvidia - NixOS Wiki links to GitHub…