How To Install nvidia-settings on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nvidia-settings on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is nvidia-settings
nvidia-settings is:
The nvidia-settings utility is a tool for configuring the NVIDIA Linux graphics driver. It operates by communicating with the NVIDIA X driver, querying and updating state as appropriate. This communication is done with the NV-CONTROL X extension.
Values such as brightness and gamma, XVideo attributes, temperature, and OpenGL settings can be queried and configured via nvidia-settings.
Package: nvidia-settings Architecture: amd64 Version: 440.64-0ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: x11 Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian NVIDIA Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 3237 Provides: nvidia-settings-binary Depends: pkg-config, screen-resolution-extra (>= 0.18~), libvdpau1, libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.0.0) | libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0), libc6 (>= 2.29), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libjansson4 (>= 2.3), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libx11-6, libxnvctrl0, libxxf86vm1 Conflicts: nvidia-settings-binary Replaces: nvidia-settings-binary Filename: pool/main/n/nvidia-settings/nvidia-settings_440.64-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 963404 MD5sum: b3967f84b6ea1e7b2146eaa22944d62b SHA1: c2a9578d04b3ae5c853b7594c7977b3a7675132a SHA256: 6f17df4dd79f184f554c007db63f7f87cd09adb1dbe1e377329091f5ddba8a37 Description-en: Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver The nvidia-settings utility is a tool for configuring the NVIDIA Linux graphics driver. It operates by communicating with the NVIDIA X driver, querying and updating state as appropriate. This communication is done with the NV-CONTROL X extension.
Values such as brightness and gamma, XVideo attributes, temperature, and OpenGL settings can be queried and configured via nvidia-settings.
There are three methods to install nvidia-settings 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-settings 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-settings using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nvidia-settings
Install nvidia-settings Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nvidia-settings using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nvidia-settings
Install nvidia-settings 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-settings using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nvidia-settings
How To Uninstall nvidia-settings on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the nvidia-settings package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nvidia-settings
Uninstall nvidia-settings And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nvidia-settings and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nvidia-settings
Remove nvidia-settings Configurations and Data
To remove nvidia-settings configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nvidia-settings
Remove nvidia-settings configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nvidia-settings configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nvidia-settings
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nvidia-settings package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
