Latest NVidia driver f-d up my video

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Nils Kassube via ubuntu-users wrote:
>Little Girl wrote:
>> Nils Kassube via ubuntu-users wrote:
>> >Little Girl wrote:
>> >> Nils Kassube via ubuntu-users wrote:

>> 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.

Even more interesting. When I do that command, I get 250 entries, 93
of which are for NVIDIA.

Could it be our desktops? I use Kubuntu and maybe there's something
it doesn't do that your desktop does as far as cleanup is concerned.

>> so I did a bit of research. It turns out that the deinstall
>> entries in that listing are packages that are no longer installed
>
>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 ...

No idea. The only other thing I can think of is that your system is
much younger than mine. Mine is Kubuntu 22.04 LTS and I installed it
as soon as it was available, so I've had it a while. How old is yours?

Also, unless MR ZenWiz is doing cleanup, his output from the dpkg
--get-selections | grep nvidia command had no deinstall entries at
all. I wonder why we're all getting different results.

I'm also curious to find out from each of you how your driver is
managed. As part of the Kubuntu installation, I opted in when the
offer was made to have Ubuntu/NVIDIA manage my video driver for me.
I'm not sure how the landscape would look if I hadn't opted in for
that, but maybe it would account for the difference.

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.