Remove/Uninstall all CUDA driver

cuda_remove.md

Remove/Uninstall all CUDA driver

Remove nvidia driver

sudo apt-get --purge remove "*cuda*" "*cublas*" "*cufft*" "*cufile*" "*curand*" \
 "*cusolver*" "*cusparse*" "*gds-tools*" "*npp*" "*nvjpeg*" "nsight*" "*nvvm*"
sudo apt-get --purge remove "*nvidia*" "libxnvctrl*"
sudo apt --purge remove cudnn*

Remove PPA

rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cuda* /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nvidia-container*
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

Cleanup the leftover

sudo apt autoremove
sudo apt autoclean

• autoremove is used to remove packages that were automatically installed to satisfy dependencies for other packages and are now no longer needed as dependencies changed or the package(s) needing them were removed in the meantime.
• autoclean remove the .deb file of uninstalled packages or old versions, usually located in /var/cache/apt/.

Check if they are all removed

After reboot your PC sudo reboot, there should be no cuda related packages

dpkg -l | grep cuda
sudo find /usr -iname "*cuda*" -type d 2> /dev/null

Reference

• removing cuda toolkit and driver
• autoclean and autoremove