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Advice on how to remove pesky nvidia driver? (aussie.zone)

submitted 2 years ago by Fluid@aussie.zone to c/linuxmint@lemmy.ml

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Switched to an AMD graphics card recently and ran "sudo apt remove --purge" on all ^nvidia* and ^libnvidia* packages. Unfortunately, one package (libnvidia-compute-470) seems to not get the message and won't remove itself. Quick search around the internet on solutions have not resolved the issue yet. Wondering if anyone had any ideas how to manually remove this package? Cheers!

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[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years ago

not sure how Mint handles things, but Pop adds in a couple Nvidia helper files through Flatpak rather than apt …