How To Install libnvidia-decode-470 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libnvidia-decode-470
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libnvidia-decode-470
libnvidia-decode-470 is:
This package includes the NVIDIA CUDA Video Decoder (NVCUVID) library which provides an interface to hardware video decoding capabilities on NVIDIA GPUs with CUDA.
The package also provides a VDPAU (Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix-like systems) library for the NVIDIA vendor implementation.
There are three methods to install libnvidia-decode-470
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-decode-470 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-decode-470
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libnvidia-decode-470
Install libnvidia-decode-470 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libnvidia-decode-470
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libnvidia-decode-470
Install libnvidia-decode-470 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-decode-470
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libnvidia-decode-470
How To Uninstall libnvidia-decode-470 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libnvidia-decode-470
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libnvidia-decode-470
Uninstall libnvidia-decode-470 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libnvidia-decode-470
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libnvidia-decode-470
Remove libnvidia-decode-470 Configurations and Data
To remove libnvidia-decode-470
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libnvidia-decode-470
Remove libnvidia-decode-470 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libnvidia-decode-470
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libnvidia-decode-470
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libnvidia-decode-470
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.