How To Install libnvidia-compute-470-server on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libnvidia-compute-470-server
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libnvidia-compute-470-server
libnvidia-compute-470-server is:
This package provides a set of libraries which enable the NVIDIA Server Driver to use GPUs for parallel general purpose computation through CUDA and OpenCL.
There are three methods to install libnvidia-compute-470-server
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 libnvidia-compute-470-server Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libnvidia-compute-470-server
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libnvidia-compute-470-server
Install libnvidia-compute-470-server Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libnvidia-compute-470-server
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libnvidia-compute-470-server
Install libnvidia-compute-470-server 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 libnvidia-compute-470-server
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libnvidia-compute-470-server
How To Uninstall libnvidia-compute-470-server on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libnvidia-compute-470-server
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libnvidia-compute-470-server
Uninstall libnvidia-compute-470-server And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libnvidia-compute-470-server
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libnvidia-compute-470-server
Remove libnvidia-compute-470-server Configurations and Data
To remove libnvidia-compute-470-server
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libnvidia-compute-470-server
Remove libnvidia-compute-470-server configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libnvidia-compute-470-server
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libnvidia-compute-470-server
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libnvidia-compute-470-server
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.