How To Install nsight-systems-target on Debian 12

Learn how to install nsight-systems-target on Debian 12 with this tutorial. nsight-systems-target is NVIDIA Nsight Systems (target specific libraries)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nsight-systems-target on Debian 12.

What is nsight-systems-target

nsight-systems-target is:

NVIDIA Nsight Systems is a system-wide performance analysis tool designed to visualize an application??s algorithms, help you identify the largest opportunities to optimize, and tune to scale efficiently across any quantity or size of CPUs and GPUs; from large server to smallest SoCs.

This package contains the target specific libraries.

There are three methods to install nsight-systems-target on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install nsight-systems-target Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install nsight-systems-target using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install nsight-systems-target

Install nsight-systems-target Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install nsight-systems-target using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install nsight-systems-target

Install nsight-systems-target 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install nsight-systems-target using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install nsight-systems-target

How To Uninstall nsight-systems-target on Debian 12

To uninstall only the nsight-systems-target package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove nsight-systems-target

Uninstall nsight-systems-target And Its Dependencies

To uninstall nsight-systems-target and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove nsight-systems-target

Remove nsight-systems-target Configurations and Data

To remove nsight-systems-target configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge nsight-systems-target

Remove nsight-systems-target configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove nsight-systems-target configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nsight-systems-target

Dependencies

nsight-systems-target have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nsight-systems-target package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.