How To Install xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-470 on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-470
on Debian 12.
What is xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-470
xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-470 is:
The NVIDIA binary driver provides optimized hardware acceleration of OpenGL/GLX/EGL/GLES applications via a direct-rendering X Server for graphics cards using NVIDIA chip sets.
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.
There are three methods to install xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-470
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 xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-470 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-470
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-470
Install xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-470 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-470
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-470
Install xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-470 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 xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-470
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-470
How To Uninstall xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-470 on Debian 12
To uninstall only the xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-470
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-470
Uninstall xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-470 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-470
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-470
Remove xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-470 Configurations and Data
To remove xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-470
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-470
Remove xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-470 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-470
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-470
Dependencies
xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-470 have the following dependencies:
- nvidia-installer-cleanup
- nvidia-tesla-470-alternative
- nvidia-support
- xorg-video-abi-25
- xserver-xorg-core
References
- xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-470 website
- xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-470 on packages.debian.org
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-470
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.