How To Install nvidia-headless-460 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nvidia-headless-460
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is nvidia-headless-460
nvidia-headless-460 is:
This metapackage installs the NVIDIA driver and the libraries that enable parallel general purpose computation through CUDA and OpenCL.
Install this package if you do not need X11 or Wayland support, which is provided by the nvidia-driver-460 metapackage.
There are three methods to install nvidia-headless-460
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-headless-460 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-headless-460
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nvidia-headless-460
Install nvidia-headless-460 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nvidia-headless-460
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nvidia-headless-460
Install nvidia-headless-460 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-headless-460
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nvidia-headless-460
How To Uninstall nvidia-headless-460 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the nvidia-headless-460
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nvidia-headless-460
Uninstall nvidia-headless-460 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nvidia-headless-460
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nvidia-headless-460
Remove nvidia-headless-460 Configurations and Data
To remove nvidia-headless-460
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nvidia-headless-460
Remove nvidia-headless-460 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nvidia-headless-460
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nvidia-headless-460
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nvidia-headless-460
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.