Setting up NVIDIA Nsight System and Nsight Compute on Ubuntu 24.04

Install dependencies

Nsight Compute requires libcursor to libxcb-cursor to run

ref

sudo apt install libxcb-cursor-dev

Install Nsight Compute

Download Nsight Compute from the website.

Mark the downloaded file as executable, and then do

sudo ~/Downloads/nsight-compute-linux-2024.3.2.3-34861637.run 

The default installation directory is /usr/local/NVIDIA-Nsight-Compute-2024.3/

Launch Nsight Compute

/usr/local/NVIDIA-Nsight-Compute/ncu-ui

Uninstall

To uninstall the NVIDIA Nsight Compute, please delete "/usr/local/NVIDIA-Nsight-Compute-2025.2" and remove symlink at "/usr/local/NVIDIA-Nsight-Compute"

Install Nsight Systems

Download from website.

Mark as executable, and then run

sudo ~/Downloads/NsightSystems-linux-public-2024.6.1.90-3490548.run

Default installation directory is /opt/nvidia/nsight-systems/2024.6.1/

Launch Nsight Systems

sudo /opt/nvidia/nsight-systems/2024.6.1/bin/nsys-ui

Uninstall

To uninstall the Nsight Systems 2025.3.1, please delete "/opt/nvidia/nsight-systems/2025.3.1"

Add to PATH

~/.bashrc

...

# NVIDIA
export PATH="/opt/nvidia/nsight-systems/2024.6.1/bin/:$PATH"
export PATH="/usr/local/NVIDIA-Nsight-Compute/:$PATH"

...

Start Profiling