How To Install nvidia-340-updates on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nvidia-340-updates
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is nvidia-340-updates
nvidia-340-updates is:
This is a transitional package for nvidia-340, and can be safely removed after the installation is complete.
Package: nvidia-340-updates 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 Filename: pool/restricted/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers-340/nvidia-340-updates_340.108-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb Size: 4888 MD5sum: d1d98a853601402c30aef40b736edf93 SHA1: 44585b9a02d69eec953fbd88bc3be79029bd5473 SHA256: 60049fce3417180f9e966c7d35f236a369a1a32897b9c674d3541c5da3d07880 Description-en: Transitional package for nvidia-340 This is a transitional package for nvidia-340, and can be safely removed after the installation is complete.
There are three methods to install nvidia-340-updates
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-340-updates 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-340-updates
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nvidia-340-updates
Install nvidia-340-updates Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nvidia-340-updates
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nvidia-340-updates
Install nvidia-340-updates 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-340-updates
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nvidia-340-updates
How To Uninstall nvidia-340-updates on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the nvidia-340-updates
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nvidia-340-updates
Uninstall nvidia-340-updates And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nvidia-340-updates
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nvidia-340-updates
Remove nvidia-340-updates Configurations and Data
To remove nvidia-340-updates
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nvidia-340-updates
Remove nvidia-340-updates configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nvidia-340-updates
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nvidia-340-updates
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nvidia-340-updates
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.