How To Install nvidia-headless-440 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nvidia-headless-440
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is nvidia-headless-440
nvidia-headless-440 is:
This is a transitional package for nvidia-headless-450, and can be safely removed after the installation is complete.
Package: nvidia-headless-440 Architecture: amd64 Version: 440.82+really.440.64-0ubuntu6 Priority: optional Section: restricted/libs Source: nvidia-graphics-drivers-440 Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 20 Depends: nvidia-headless-no-dkms-440, nvidia-dkms-440 Filename: pool/restricted/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers-440/nvidia-headless-440_440.82+really.440.64-0ubuntu6_amd64.deb Size: 7644 MD5sum: 321ff716ec37b0adce92eab3d4a667b4 SHA1: d0fd962b8771b302a41dfe4e1011bc286c3d7c9b SHA256: 7696a6460de954e5fba0154c5b2c33e2c1e39a1d582d08fb76f97857afe11eaa 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-440 metapackage.
There are three methods to install nvidia-headless-440
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-440 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-440
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nvidia-headless-440
Install nvidia-headless-440 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nvidia-headless-440
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nvidia-headless-440
Install nvidia-headless-440 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-440
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nvidia-headless-440
How To Uninstall nvidia-headless-440 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the nvidia-headless-440
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nvidia-headless-440
Uninstall nvidia-headless-440 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nvidia-headless-440
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-440
Remove nvidia-headless-440 Configurations and Data
To remove nvidia-headless-440
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nvidia-headless-440
Remove nvidia-headless-440 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nvidia-headless-440
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nvidia-headless-440
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nvidia-headless-440
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.