NVIDIA CUDA is Coming to Ubuntu Repositories

Canonical has announced that it will begin packaging and distributing the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit directly through the Ubuntu repositories, a move that will see CUDA tools, libraries, and runtimes available natively rather than exclusively from NVIDIA’s site. The CUDA Toolkit, developed by NVIDIA, provides a parallel computing platform and programming model that enables developers to leverage NVIDIA GPUs for general-purpose processing.

According to Canonical, the integration will include the full CUDA Toolkit in Ubuntu, comprising GPU-accelerated libraries, debugging and optimisation tools, C/C++ compilers, and runtime libraries, making it easier for developers to build, iterate, and deploy CUDA-powered applications. In its official announcement, Canonical stated: “Canonical is making it even easier for developers to access CUDA natively through their development environment.

The CUDA toolkit and runtime will be directly distributed within Ubuntu. Developers using this new distribution channel will be able to use CUDA on their hardware with a native Ubuntu experience.” At the time of writing, no exact timeline for when the CUDA Toolkit will become available in the Ubuntu repositories had been disclosed. 16 September 2025.