The following is a summary of the instructions in NVIDIA's official documentation

Tested OS

These instructions have been tested on:

Elementary Hera 5.1

Download

Download the following packages from cuDNN download page.

cuDNN Runtime Library for Ubuntu18.04 (Deb)
cuDNN Developer Library for Ubuntu18.04 (Deb)
cuDNN Code Samples and User Guide for Ubuntu18.04 (Deb)

The remainder of the wiki assumes these have been downloaded to **~/Downloads**

Configuration Variables

CUDNN_DIR=~/cuDNN

Installing cuDNN

mkdir -p $CUDNN_DIR
mv ~/Downloads/libcudnn* $CUDNN_DIR

sudo dpkg -i libcudnn7_7.6.5.32-1+cuda10.2_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libcudnn7-dev_7.6.5.32-1+cuda10.2_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libcudnn7-doc_7.6.5.32-1+cuda10.2_amd64.deb
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= Validating Installation =

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cp -r /usr/src/cudnn_samples_v7/ $CUDNN_DIR
cd ${CUDNN_DIR}/cudnn_samples_v7/mnistCUDNN
make clean && make

# Run the test
./mnistCUDNN