How To Install xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-470 on Debian 12

Learn how to install xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-470 on Debian 12 with this tutorial. xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-470 is NVIDIA binary Xorg driver (Tesla 470 version)

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:

References

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.