Unable to install back nvidia-release-upgrade

Accelerated Computing DGX User Forum
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Hello,

I accidentally removed nvidia-release-upgrade and cannot install it back:

 $ sudo apt install -y nvidia-release-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package nvidia-release-upgrade is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'nvidia-release-upgrade' has no installation candidate

My environment:

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS
Release:        20.04
Codename:       focal

The DGX OS version is 4.5.0


 $ grep VERSION /etc/dgx-release

DGX_SWBUILD_VERSION="3.1.3"
DGX_OTA_VERSION="3.1.3"
DGX_OTA_VERSION="3.1.6"
DGX_OTA_VERSION="3.1.7"
DGX_OTA_VERSION="4.0.4"
DGX_OTA_VERSION="4.0.7"
DGX_OTA_VERSION="4.2.0"
DGX_OTA_VERSION="4.4.0"
DGX_OTA_VERSION="4.5.0"

Any idea how to bring nvidia-release-upgrade on DGX Station? From the documentation, it looks that if I want to upgrade to DGX OS 5 and Ubuntu 22.04, nvidia-release-upgrade is the only way.

Thanks for the help.

2

Hi @ping-lin.chang1 !

What does apt-cache policy nvidia-release-upgrade say?

3

I’m also having the same issue with with the DGX-1 and DGX-A100.

On DGX-1 - [DGX_SW_BUILD_VERSION 4.0.5]
apt-cache policy nvidia-release-upgrade
N: Unable to locate package nvidia-release-upgrade

On DGX-A100 - [DGX_SW_BUILD_VERSION 5.0.2]
apt-cache policy nvidia-release-upgrade
N: Unable to locate package nvidia-release-upgrade

– also when trying to install nvidia-release-upgrade
apt install -y nvidia-release-upgrade
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package nvidia-release-upgrade

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Hi @harry.wong ,

Not sure that nvidia-release-upgrade makes any sense for DGX 5.0.2. It’s used to go between major releases (e.g., DGX OS 4 → 5). On your DGX-1 system that’s on 4.0.5, can you follow the steps in the DGX OS 5 User Guide ? You need to get to the “latest” DGX OS 4.x release first.

To update your DGX A100 system, simply do apt update && apt full-upgrade, and it should bring you to the latest DGX OS 5 release! (See the Release Notes for what that is, and what it includes.)

ScottE