Kernels galore and no NVIDIA driver in sight

Little Girl littlergirl at gmail.com
Tue Dec 31 20:03:31 UTC 2024


Hey there,

Keith via ubuntu-users wrote:
>Little Girl wrote:
   
>There are little to no files on your system associated with those 
>packages. They've been removed when the packages were uninstalled.

You're right. A bit more research showed that they were for a
different architecture, so they wouldn't have been used on my machine
anyway.

>> Actually, if you run it without sudo, it pops up a little window
>> for you to put your password into.
>
>Well, yes, but it kinda defeats the whole point of chaining those 
>commands together. But as you say its just a minor annoyance.

True, and even minor annoyances are worth taking care of. Updated:

sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade && sudo snap refresh

>If you use apt exclusively to manage packages, then apt clean isn't 
>necessary because apt doesn't keep downloaded packages. If you use 
>anything else, then its likely they will saved to the cache
>directory unless you set an apt config directive that says not to.

I'm not certain apt is exclusively used to manage packages since a
lot of stuff was installed for me by the operating system to begin
with and since my NVIDIA drivers are handled for me by Ubuntu and
NVIDIA. I suppose I could leave it off and just simulate it once in a
while to check if anything needs to be cleaned up.

Thank you for all of your help and your patience with me. I hope you
had wonderful holidays and are having a good New Year.

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.




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