README.md

ubuntu packaging nvidia driver

Overview

Packaging templates for Ubuntu based Linux distros to build NVIDIA driver packages.

The main branch contains this README. The control and .install files can be found in the appropriate 16.04, 18.04, and 20.04 branches.

Table of Contents

• Overview
• Deliverables
• Prerequisites
  • Clone this git repository
  • Download a NVIDIA driver runfile
  • Install build dependencies
• Related
  • NVIDIA modprobe
  • NVIDIA settings
• See also
  • RHEL driver
  • SUSE driver
• Contributing

Deliverables

This repo contains the template files used to build the following DEB packages:

note: flavor is the first . delimited field in the driver version, ex: 460 in 460.32.03

• Ubuntu 18.04 or Ubuntu 20.04

- libnvidia-cfg1-${flavor}
- libnvidia-common-${flavor}
- libnvidia-compute-${flavor}
- libnvidia-decode-${flavor}
- libnvidia-encode-${flavor}
- libnvidia-extra-${flavor}
- libnvidia-fbc1-${flavor}
- libnvidia-gl-${flavor}
- libnvidia-ifr1-${flavor}
- nvidia-compute-utils-${flavor}
- nvidia-dkms-${flavor}
- nvidia-driver-${flavor}
- nvidia-headless-${flavor}
- nvidia-headless-no-dkms-${flavor}
- nvidia-kernel-common-${flavor}
- nvidia-kernel-source-${flavor}
- nvidia-utils-${flavor}
- xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-${flavor}

• Ubuntu 16.04

- libcuda1-${flavor}
- nvidia-libopencl1-${flavor}
- nvidia-opencl-icd-${flavor}
- nvidia-${flavor}
- nvidia-${flavor}-dev

• Additional GRID packages

- libnvidia-grid-${flavor}
- nvidia-grid-utils-${flavor}

Prerequisites

Clone this git repository:

Supported branches: 16.04, 18.04 & 20.04

git clone -b ${branch} https://github.com/NVIDIA/ubuntu-packaging-nvidia-driver
> ex: git clone -b 18.04 https://github.com/NVIDIA/ubuntu-packaging-nvidia-driver

Download a NVIDIA driver runfile:

• TRD location: https://us.download.nvidia.com/tesla/ (not browsable)

  ex: https://us.download.nvidia.com/tesla/460.32.03/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-460.32.03.run

• UDA location: https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/

  ex: https://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/460.56/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-460.56.run

• CUDA runfiles: cuda_${toolkit}_${driver}_linux.run are not compatible.

  However a NVIDIA driver runfile can be extracted intact from a CUDA runfile:

  sh cuda_${toolkit}_${driver}_linux.run --tar mxvf
  > ex: sh cuda_11.2.1_460.32.03_linux.run --tar mxvf
  
  ls builds/NVIDIA-Linux-${arch}-${driver}.run
  > ex: ls builds/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_460.32.03.run

Install build dependencies

note: these are only needed for building not installation

# Packaging
apt-get install debhelper devscripts dpkg-dev

Related

• nvidia-modprobe

  • https://github.com/NVIDIA/ubuntu-packaging-nvidia-modprobe

• nvidia-settings

  • https://github.com/NVIDIA/ubuntu-packaging-nvidia-settings

See also

• nvidia-graphics-drivers
  • https://github.com/tseliot/nvidia-graphics-drivers

RHEL driver

• https://github.com/NVIDIA/yum-packaging-nvidia-driver

SUSE driver

• https://github.com/NVIDIA/zypper-packaging-nvidia-driver

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md