ubuntu packaging nvidia modprobe

Overview

Packaging templates for Ubuntu based Linux distros to build NVIDIA modprobe 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 modprobe tarball
  • Install build dependencies
• Related
  • NVIDIA modprobe
  • NVIDIA settings
• Contributing

Deliverables

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

- nvidia-modprobe

note: this package does not support "flavor" / locking to a specific driver branch.

Prerequisites

Clone this git repository:

Supported branches: 16.04, 18.04 & 20.04

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

Download a NVIDIA modprobe tarball:

• Source code location: https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-modprobe/releases

  ex: https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-modprobe/archive/460.32.03.tar.gz

  ex: https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-modprobe/archive/460.56.tar.gz

Install build dependencies

note: these are only needed for building not installation

# Packaging
apt-get install debhelper devscripts dpkg-dev

Related

• nvidia-driver

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

• nvidia-settings

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

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md