Choose an Installation Method

The NVIDIA driver can be installed using distribution-specific packages (rpm and Debian packages).

The distribution-independent package has the advantage of working across a wider set of Linux distributions, but does not update with the distribution’s native package management system. The distribution-specific packages interface with the distribution’s native package management system. It is recommended to use the distribution-specific packages, where possible.

When using rpm or Debian local repo installers, the downloaded package contains a repository snapshot stored on the local filesystem in /var/. Such a package only informs the package manager where to find the actual installation packages, but will not install them.

If the online network repository is enabled, rpm or Debian packages will be automatically downloaded at installation time using the package manager: apt, dnf, tdnf, yum, or zypper.

Distribution-specific instructions detail how to install NVIDIA driver:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux

• KylinOS

• Fedora

• SUSE

• Ubuntu

• Debian

• Amazon Linux

• Azure Linux

Finally, some helpful package manager capabilities are detailed.

Note

Optional components such as nvidia-fs, libnvidia-nscq, and nvidia-fabricmanager are not installed by default and will have to be installed separately as needed.