How To Install nvidia-modprobe on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nvidia-modprobe
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is nvidia-modprobe
nvidia-modprobe is:
This setuid program is used to create NVIDIA Linux device files and load the NVIDIA kernel module, on behalf of NVIDIA Linux driver components which may not have sufficient privileges to perform these actions on their own.
Package: nvidia-modprobe Architecture: amd64 Version: 440.44-1 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: multiverse/utils Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian NVIDIA Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 58 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14) Filename: pool/multiverse/n/nvidia-modprobe/nvidia-modprobe_440.44-1_amd64.deb Size: 17852 MD5sum: f11223e8803003f97acf80e7708a9f87 SHA1: e9938f2ab640cbe2a1a6f6b49d6667257ad845ca SHA256: c619781466f9683b5212039de33cbcbc9d9285d3b04398de3b298fc423ecf56a Homepage: https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-modprobe Description-en: utility to load NVIDIA kernel modules and create device nodes This setuid program is used to create NVIDIA Linux device files and load the NVIDIA kernel module, on behalf of NVIDIA Linux driver components which may not have sufficient privileges to perform these actions on their own.
There are three methods to install nvidia-modprobe
on Ubuntu 20.04. 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-modprobe 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-modprobe
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nvidia-modprobe
Install nvidia-modprobe Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nvidia-modprobe
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nvidia-modprobe
Install nvidia-modprobe 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install nvidia-modprobe
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nvidia-modprobe
How To Uninstall nvidia-modprobe on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the nvidia-modprobe
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nvidia-modprobe
Uninstall nvidia-modprobe And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nvidia-modprobe
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nvidia-modprobe
Remove nvidia-modprobe Configurations and Data
To remove nvidia-modprobe
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nvidia-modprobe
Remove nvidia-modprobe configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nvidia-modprobe
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nvidia-modprobe
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nvidia-modprobe
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.