GPU cycles not available issue

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I installed linux mint 17.2 Cinnamon on my Asus Rog G751JT with GTX 970m 3gb.

I have the working nvidia driver enabled and also installed nvidia modprobe. I’m using Nvidia 346 driver version I think. I was able to get cycles to work but only when I use Blender that came from the zip file downloaded from Blender.org site.

Although this my current work around of getting my gtx 970m to work with gpu rendering in cycles, I actually wanted to install blender through the software manager BUT for some reason, Blender doesn’t read the gpu for gpu rendering in cycles. Is there anyway to fix that?

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You need to install a lot of megabytes of “nvidia-cuda-toolkit,” and still may not work:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/blender/+bug/1375333

Anyway it’s recomended to use Blender downloaded from the official site. Why you want/need to use Blender installed from the repositories?

Edit:
By the way, I don’t know in what Ubuntu version is based this version of Mint. So I do not know what version of Blender install from the repositories. 9xx cards have support from Blender 2.73:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.73/Cycles