How To Install nvidia-headless-390 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nvidia-headless-390 on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is nvidia-headless-390
nvidia-headless-390 is:
This metapackage installs the NVIDIA driver and the libraries that enable parallel general purpose computation through CUDA and OpenCL.
Install this package if you do not need X11 or Wayland support, which is provided by the nvidia-driver-390 metapackage.
Package: nvidia-headless-390 Architecture: amd64 Version: 390.132-0ubuntu2 Priority: optional Section: restricted/libs Source: nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 22 Depends: nvidia-headless-no-dkms-390, nvidia-dkms-390 Filename: pool/restricted/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers-390/nvidia-headless-390_390.132-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb Size: 7680 MD5sum: 2a6514c73ca1bb501dcaa4d2d3779b05 SHA1: 89e47c633873122e9463f00917c4ae582860ef6d SHA256: 53346851c1bdac4395a5a272c8bb397763479b28b68273644a067885b730a707 Homepage: http://www.nvidia.com Description-en: NVIDIA headless metapackage This metapackage installs the NVIDIA driver and the libraries that enable parallel general purpose computation through CUDA and OpenCL.
Install this package if you do not need X11 or Wayland support, which is provided by the nvidia-driver-390 metapackage.
There are three methods to install nvidia-headless-390 on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install nvidia-headless-390 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nvidia-headless-390 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nvidia-headless-390
Install nvidia-headless-390 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nvidia-headless-390 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nvidia-headless-390
Install nvidia-headless-390 Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install nvidia-headless-390 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nvidia-headless-390
How To Uninstall nvidia-headless-390 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the nvidia-headless-390 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nvidia-headless-390
Uninstall nvidia-headless-390 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nvidia-headless-390 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nvidia-headless-390
Remove nvidia-headless-390 Configurations and Data
To remove nvidia-headless-390 configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nvidia-headless-390
Remove nvidia-headless-390 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nvidia-headless-390 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nvidia-headless-390
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nvidia-headless-390 package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
