How To Install nvidia-331-updates-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nvidia-331-updates-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is nvidia-331-updates-dev
nvidia-331-updates-dev is:
This is a transitional package for nvidia-340-dev, and can be safely removed after the installation is complete.
Package: nvidia-331-updates-dev Architecture: amd64 Version: 340.108-0ubuntu2 Priority: optional Section: restricted/misc Source: nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 21 Depends: nvidia-340-dev Filename: pool/restricted/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers-340/nvidia-331-updates-dev_340.108-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb Size: 4892 MD5sum: 968fc33c1fabe68a475d6fc59ecc68c0 SHA1: de9cac0bb0b48a89ec2c46bc9a017921d916b3a0 SHA256: 8efcee764f24afe6597e16dbff6f333508f18d34aa57e327073196d594613e6b Description-en: Transitional package for nvidia-340-dev This is a transitional package for nvidia-340-dev, and can be safely removed after the installation is complete.
There are three methods to install nvidia-331-updates-dev
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-331-updates-dev 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-331-updates-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nvidia-331-updates-dev
Install nvidia-331-updates-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nvidia-331-updates-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nvidia-331-updates-dev
Install nvidia-331-updates-dev 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-331-updates-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nvidia-331-updates-dev
How To Uninstall nvidia-331-updates-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the nvidia-331-updates-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nvidia-331-updates-dev
Uninstall nvidia-331-updates-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nvidia-331-updates-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nvidia-331-updates-dev
Remove nvidia-331-updates-dev Configurations and Data
To remove nvidia-331-updates-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nvidia-331-updates-dev
Remove nvidia-331-updates-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nvidia-331-updates-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nvidia-331-updates-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nvidia-331-updates-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.