README.md

ubuntu packaging nvidia settings

Overview

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

Deliverables

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

- libxnvctrl0
- libxnvctrl-dev
- nvidia-settings

note: these package do 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-settings
> ex: git clone -b 18.04 https://github.com/NVIDIA/ubuntu-packaging-nvidia-settings

Download a NVIDIA settings tarball:

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

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

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

Install build dependencies

note: these are only needed for building not installation

# Compiling UI
apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev libgtk-3-dev
# X.org utilities
apt-get install libxext-dev xutils-dev libxrandr-dev
# GLVND
apt-get install libgl-dev libegl-dev libegl1-mesa-dev
# Video extensions
apt-get install libxxf86vm-dev libxv-dev libvdpau-dev
# Misc
apt-get install libjansson-dev libdbus-1-dev
# 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-modprobe

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md