How To Install nvidia-headless-435 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nvidia-headless-435 on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is nvidia-headless-435
nvidia-headless-435 is:
This is a transitional package for nvidia-headless-455, and can be safely removed after the installation is complete.
Package: nvidia-headless-435 Architecture: amd64 Version: 435.21-0ubuntu7 Priority: optional Section: restricted/libs Source: nvidia-graphics-drivers-435 Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 18 Depends: nvidia-headless-no-dkms-435, nvidia-dkms-435 Filename: pool/restricted/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers-435/nvidia-headless-435_435.21-0ubuntu7_amd64.deb Size: 6336 MD5sum: 49ce069fe1a0e09cecc4343d1c96c4f0 SHA1: 7b980a50d39102709f776c29535b81a1ccc93381 SHA256: 4035198f9cc373c7d468dbe6d1aa4cdf3c7c3c296183e02bc7c10005b4359029 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-435 metapackage.
There are three methods to install nvidia-headless-435 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-435 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-435 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nvidia-headless-435
Install nvidia-headless-435 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nvidia-headless-435 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nvidia-headless-435
Install nvidia-headless-435 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-435 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nvidia-headless-435
How To Uninstall nvidia-headless-435 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the nvidia-headless-435 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nvidia-headless-435
Uninstall nvidia-headless-435 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nvidia-headless-435 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-435
Remove nvidia-headless-435 Configurations and Data
To remove nvidia-headless-435 configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nvidia-headless-435
Remove nvidia-headless-435 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nvidia-headless-435 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nvidia-headless-435
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nvidia-headless-435 package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.