How To Install nvidia-tesla-470-opencl-icd on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nvidia-tesla-470-opencl-icd on Debian 12.
What is nvidia-tesla-470-opencl-icd
nvidia-tesla-470-opencl-icd is:
OpenCL (Open Computing Language) is a multivendor open standard for general-purpose parallel programming of heterogeneous systems that include CPUs, GPUs and other processors.
This package provides the NVIDIA installable client driver (ICD) for OpenCL which supports NVIDIA GPUs.
There are three methods to install nvidia-tesla-470-opencl-icd 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-opencl-icd 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-opencl-icd using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nvidia-tesla-470-opencl-icd
Install nvidia-tesla-470-opencl-icd Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nvidia-tesla-470-opencl-icd using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nvidia-tesla-470-opencl-icd
Install nvidia-tesla-470-opencl-icd 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-opencl-icd using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nvidia-tesla-470-opencl-icd
How To Uninstall nvidia-tesla-470-opencl-icd on Debian 12
To uninstall only the nvidia-tesla-470-opencl-icd package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nvidia-tesla-470-opencl-icd
Uninstall nvidia-tesla-470-opencl-icd And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nvidia-tesla-470-opencl-icd 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-opencl-icd
Remove nvidia-tesla-470-opencl-icd Configurations and Data
To remove nvidia-tesla-470-opencl-icd configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nvidia-tesla-470-opencl-icd
Remove nvidia-tesla-470-opencl-icd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nvidia-tesla-470-opencl-icd configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nvidia-tesla-470-opencl-icd
Dependencies
nvidia-tesla-470-opencl-icd have the following dependencies:
- nvidia-opencl-common
- ocl-icd-libopencl1
- nvidia-tesla-470-alternative
- libnvidia-tesla-470-cuda1
- libnvidia-tesla-470-compiler
- libc6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nvidia-tesla-470-opencl-icd package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
