How To Install bbswitch-dkms on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install bbswitch-dkms on Ubuntu 20.04. bbswitch-dkms is Interface for toggling the power on NVIDIA Optimus video cards Interface for toggling the power on NVIDIA Optimus video cards

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bbswitch-dkms on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is bbswitch-dkms

bbswitch-dkms is:

bbswitch is a kernel module which automatically detects the required ACPI calls for two kinds of Optimus laptops. It has been verified to work with “real” Optimus and “legacy” Optimus laptops (at least, that is what the author Lekensteyn calls those).

This package uses DKMS to automatically build the bbswitch kernel module.

Package: bbswitch-dkms Architecture: amd64 Version: 0.8-8 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: extra Section: universe/kernel Source: bbswitch Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian NVIDIA Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 36 Depends: dkms (>= 2.1.0.0) Suggests: bumblebee Filename: pool/universe/b/bbswitch/bbswitch-dkms_0.8-8_amd64.deb Size: 11724 MD5sum: 4709f24597c94d6c708f95aabe786b2b SHA1: 32ae29f60a1d05faaf74a559e193c615d9674688 SHA256: b7675de0a7bef572ec88f285d515bf23413a1a05e79fb7a299d21646e151e22f Homepage: https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/bbswitch Description-en: Interface for toggling the power on NVIDIA Optimus video cards bbswitch is a kernel module which automatically detects the required ACPI calls for two kinds of Optimus laptops. It has been verified to work with “real” Optimus and “legacy” Optimus laptops (at least, that is what the author Lekensteyn calls those).

This package uses DKMS to automatically build the bbswitch kernel module.

There are three methods to install bbswitch-dkms 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 bbswitch-dkms Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install bbswitch-dkms using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install bbswitch-dkms

Install bbswitch-dkms Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install bbswitch-dkms using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install bbswitch-dkms

Install bbswitch-dkms 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 bbswitch-dkms using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install bbswitch-dkms

How To Uninstall bbswitch-dkms on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the bbswitch-dkms package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove bbswitch-dkms

Uninstall bbswitch-dkms And Its Dependencies

To uninstall bbswitch-dkms and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove bbswitch-dkms

Remove bbswitch-dkms Configurations and Data

To remove bbswitch-dkms configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge bbswitch-dkms

Remove bbswitch-dkms configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove bbswitch-dkms configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bbswitch-dkms

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bbswitch-dkms package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.