How to clean-up / reinstall nvidia drivers on ubuntu 20.04?

WestCoastProjects

10/8/22, 2:51 AM

nvidia-smi is failing:

$ nvidia-smi
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.

There appears to be prior installation [attempts?] of nvidia on this machine. How do I clean this up?

$ sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 nvidia-driver-465 : Depends: libnvidia-extra-465 (= 465.19.01-0ubuntu1) but it is not going to be installed
                     Recommends: libnvidia-compute-465:i386 (= 465.19.01-0ubuntu1) but it is not installable
                     Recommends: libnvidia-decode-465:i386 (= 465.19.01-0ubuntu1) but it is not installable
                     Recommends: libnvidia-encode-465:i386 (= 465.19.01-0ubuntu1) but it is not installable
                     Recommends: libnvidia-ifr1-465:i386 (= 465.19.01-0ubuntu1) but it is not installable
                     Recommends: libnvidia-fbc1-465:i386 (= 465.19.01-0ubuntu1) but it is not installable
                     Recommends: libnvidia-gl-465:i386 (= 465.19.01-0ubuntu1) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

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oldfred

10/8/22, 3:35 AM

Typically you have to purge all old drivers first. If installed directly from nVidia with .run file, you need to remove that. If from Ubuntu repository `sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia-*` Should not need ppa anymore as drivers included in Ubuntu repository: https://askubuntu.com/questions/61396/how-do-i-install-the-nvidia-drivers Uninstall the .run nVidia driver. https://askubuntu.com/questions/219942/how-to-uninstall-manually-installed-nvidia-drivers

WestCoastProjects

10/8/22, 3:41 AM

@oldfred I did a bunch of purges first. This is really a difficult [re-] install. I am going to go get some top pro's to do it

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EN: How to clean-up / reinstall nvidia drivers on ubuntu 20.04?

TH: จะล้าง / ติดตั้งไดรเวอร์ nvidia ใหม่บน Ubuntu 20.04 ได้อย่างไร

RO: Cum se curăță/reinstalează driverele nvidia pe ubuntu 20.04?

RU: Как очистить/переустановить драйверы nvidia на Ubuntu 20.04?

VI: Làm cách nào để dọn dẹp/cài đặt lại trình điều khiển nvidia trên Ubuntu 20.04?

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