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Re: How to get a clean situation for nvidia drivers

From	Andrea Borgia <andrea@borgia.bo.it>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: How to get a clean situation for nvidia drivers
Date	2019-03-13 13:30 +0100
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Good idea, I'll check the metapackage, though.

Il giorno mer 13 mar 2019 alle ore 13:17 Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> ha
scritto:

> On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 12:55:40 +0100
> Andrea Borgia <andrea@borgia.bo.it> wrote:
>
> Hello Andrea,
>
> >Yup, my bad: I assumed that the package still had a reason to be
> >installed. It might have been a mistake or a requirement of an earlier
>
> The probable reason is that you've got the video drivers metapackage
> (exact name escapes me ATM) installed.  As a result, all drivers, whether
> needed or not, are installed.
>
> Unless disk space is at a premium, you may as well leave them all in
> place.  If nothing else, should you need to change your GFX card in
> future, no matter from what manufacturer it comes, the drivers will most
> likely already be in place.
>
> --
>  Regards  _
>          / )           "The blindingly obvious is
>         / _)rad        never immediately apparent"
> I'm doubling the rent 'coz the building's condemned
> Let's Lynch The Landlord - Dead Kennedys
>

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How to get a clean situation for nvidia drivers Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> - 2019-03-12 19:10 +0100
  Re: How to get a clean situation for nvidia drivers Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2019-03-12 19:40 +0100
    Re: How to get a clean situation for nvidia drivers Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> - 2019-03-13 09:40 +0100
      Re: How to get a clean situation for nvidia drivers Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2019-03-13 11:30 +0100
  Re: How to get a clean situation for nvidia drivers Boyan Penkov <boyan.penkov@gmail.com> - 2019-03-12 22:40 +0100
    Re: How to get a clean situation for nvidia drivers Andrea Borgia <andrea@borgia.bo.it> - 2019-03-13 12:30 +0100
      Re: How to get a clean situation for nvidia drivers <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-03-13 12:40 +0100
        Re: How to get a clean situation for nvidia drivers Andrea Borgia <andrea@borgia.bo.it> - 2019-03-13 13:00 +0100
          Re: How to get a clean situation for nvidia drivers tomas@tuxteam.de - 2019-03-13 13:10 +0100
      Re: How to get a clean situation for nvidia drivers Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2019-03-13 12:50 +0100
        Re: How to get a clean situation for nvidia drivers Andrea Borgia <andrea@borgia.bo.it> - 2019-03-13 13:00 +0100
          Re: How to get a clean situation for nvidia drivers Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2019-03-13 13:20 +0100
            Re: How to get a clean situation for nvidia drivers Andrea Borgia <andrea@borgia.bo.it> - 2019-03-13 13:30 +0100
          Re: How to get a clean situation for nvidia drivers Boyan Penkov <boyan.penkov@gmail.com> - 2019-03-14 02:00 +0100

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