How To Install nvidia-tesla-470-driver on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nvidia-tesla-470-driver on Debian 12.
What is nvidia-tesla-470-driver
nvidia-tesla-470-driver is:
This metapackage depends on the NVIDIA binary driver and libraries that provide optimized hardware acceleration of OpenGL/GLX/EGL/GLES/Vulkan applications via a direct-rendering X Server.
Please see the nvidia-tesla-470-kernel-dkms or nvidia-tesla-470-kernel-source packages for building the kernel module required by this package. This will provide nvidia-tesla-470-kernel-470.182.03.
This version only supports GeForce, NVS, Quadro, RTX, Tesla, … GPUs based on the Kepler, Maxwell, Pascal, Volta, Turing, Ampere, or newer architectures. The (Tesla) 470 drivers are the last driver series supporting GPUs based on the Kepler architecture. Look at the legacy driver packages for older cards.
See /usr/share/doc/nvidia-tesla-470-driver/README.txt.gz for a complete list of supported GPUs and PCI IDs.
Building the kernel module has been tested up to Linux 6.2.
There are three methods to install nvidia-tesla-470-driver 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-tesla-470-driver 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-tesla-470-driver using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nvidia-tesla-470-driver
Install nvidia-tesla-470-driver Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nvidia-tesla-470-driver using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nvidia-tesla-470-driver
Install nvidia-tesla-470-driver 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-tesla-470-driver using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nvidia-tesla-470-driver
How To Uninstall nvidia-tesla-470-driver on Debian 12
To uninstall only the nvidia-tesla-470-driver package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nvidia-tesla-470-driver
Uninstall nvidia-tesla-470-driver And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nvidia-tesla-470-driver and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nvidia-tesla-470-driver
Remove nvidia-tesla-470-driver Configurations and Data
To remove nvidia-tesla-470-driver configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nvidia-tesla-470-driver
Remove nvidia-tesla-470-driver configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nvidia-tesla-470-driver configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nvidia-tesla-470-driver
Dependencies
nvidia-tesla-470-driver have the following dependencies:
- nvidia-installer-cleanup
- nvidia-tesla-470-driver-libs
- nvidia-tesla-470-driver-bin
- xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-470
- nvidia-tesla-470-vdpau-driver
- nvidia-tesla-470-alternative
- nvidia-tesla-470-kernel-dkms
- nvidia-support
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nvidia-tesla-470-driver package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
