How To Install nvidia-modprobe on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install nvidia-modprobe on Ubuntu 20.04. nvidia-modprobe is utility to load NVIDIA kernel modules and create device nodes utility to load NVIDIA kernel modules and create device nodes

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

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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.