How To Install nvidia-persistenced on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nvidia-persistenced
on Debian 12.
What is nvidia-persistenced
nvidia-persistenced is:
When persistence mode is enabled, the daemon prevents the driver from releasing device state when the device is not in use. This can improve the startup time of new clients in this scenario.
There are three methods to install nvidia-persistenced
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 nvidia-persistenced 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-persistenced
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nvidia-persistenced
Install nvidia-persistenced Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nvidia-persistenced
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nvidia-persistenced
Install nvidia-persistenced 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 nvidia-persistenced
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nvidia-persistenced
How To Uninstall nvidia-persistenced on Debian 12
To uninstall only the nvidia-persistenced
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nvidia-persistenced
Uninstall nvidia-persistenced And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nvidia-persistenced
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nvidia-persistenced
Remove nvidia-persistenced Configurations and Data
To remove nvidia-persistenced
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nvidia-persistenced
Remove nvidia-persistenced configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nvidia-persistenced
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nvidia-persistenced
Dependencies
nvidia-persistenced have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nvidia-persistenced
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.