Latest NVidia driver f-d up my video

[Nils Kassube]

On 16.08.24 Little Girl wrote:
> Nils Kassube via ubuntu-users wrote:
> >On 15.08.24 Little Girl wrote:
> >> Nils Kassube via ubuntu-users wrote:
> >> >Try
> >> >
> >> >dpkg --get-selections | grep nvidia
> >> >
> >> >which should tell you which nvidia modules are actually installed.
> >>
> >> Interesting. That gave me a huge list. Should I be concerned if I
> >> have 93 entries listed as deinstall in that output?
> >
> >IMHO there is no reason for panic. I think the deinstall entries
> >mean that the packages were removed but not purged. So there are a
> >few small files remaining. If you purge these packages the deinstall
> >entries should be gone.
>
> That didn't manage to remove them,

Hmm, interesting. Using "dpkg --get-selections | grep deinstall" I got only a single entry for libgnutls30:i386, In synaptic I couldn't find an entry for it but with "apt-get purge libgnutls30:i386" the entry vanished.

> so I did a bit of research. It
> turns out that the deinstall entries in that listing are packages
> that are no longer installed because when the dpkg --get-selections
> command is run with any kind of pattern after it (in this case, the
> pattern is | grep nvidia), the output includes packages that have
> already been uninstalled. I verified that by doing a search for some
> of those packages in Muon and they''re not being installed, so all of
> them can be ignored.

Thanks for the explanation. But then why do I not see many deinstall entries. After all I have installed and later removed many packages - well not really removed but purged ...


Nils