# Unable to uninstall/update manually installed Nvidia driver **URL:** \ **Category:** Linux\ **Created:** [November 7, 2023, 9:19am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/unable-to-uninstall-update-manually-installed-nvidia-driver/272046 "2023-11-07T09:19:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![floorsctz](https://developer.download.nvidia.com/images/forums/profile-default-devtalk-84.png) [@floorsctz](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/floorsctz)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 9:19am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/unable-to-uninstall-update-manually-installed-nvidia-driver/272046/1 "2023-11-07T09:19:46Z")
I am having some trouble uninstalling an older Nvidia driver on Proxmox (v7.1-12). I previously installed driver v470 using a run file from Nvidia’s website and its been working fine. I do however want to update the driver as this one is very old. I first tried to uninstall the driver using the run file (had to redownload that specific version as I deleted the old one) using ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86\_64-470.103.01.run -uninstall but the installer shows the following : > `There is no NVIDIA driver currently installed.` I then downloaded the latest driver (v535) which shows > The NVIDIA driver appears to have been installed previously using a different installer. To prevent potential conflicts, it is recommended either to update the existing installation > using the same mechanism by which it was originally installed, or to uninstall the existing installation before installing this driver. > > Please review the message provided by the maintainer of this alternate installation method and decide how to proceed: and if I select continue installation it shows > `if you want to use the nvidia-installer please uninstall the Debian packages first. The two methods of installation cannot be used at the same time.` Running nvidia-smi shows the following ```auto +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | NVIDIA-SMI 470.103.01 Driver Version: 470.103.01 CUDA Version: 11.4 | |-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC | | Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. | | | | MIG M. | |===============================+======================+======================| | 0 Quadro P400 Off | 00000000:0F:00.0 Off | N/A | | 30% 42C P0 N/A / N/A | 0MiB / 1998MiB | 0% Default | | | | N/A | +-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Processes: | | GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory | | ID ID Usage | |=============================================================================| | No running processes found | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ``` I’m not sure what else I can try to update the driver. I should add that as far as I can remember I haven’t installed any debian packages for Nvidia. ---
**Author:** ![generix](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/nvidia/user_avatar/forums.developer.nvidia.com/generix/32/16024_2.png) [@generix](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/generix)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 9:26am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/unable-to-uninstall-update-manually-installed-nvidia-driver/272046/2 "2023-11-07T09:26:53Z")
Please post the output of dpkg -l |grep nvidia to check for a packaged install. ---
**Author:** ![floorsctz](https://developer.download.nvidia.com/images/forums/profile-default-devtalk-84.png) [@floorsctz](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/floorsctz)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 9:34am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/unable-to-uninstall-update-manually-installed-nvidia-driver/272046/3 "2023-11-07T09:34:01Z")
> [@generix](#): > > dpkg -l |grep nvidia The following is output. Are all these 470\* entries from the manual installation or are these also installed from dpkg? ```auto ri glx-alternative-nvidia 1.2.1~deb11u1 amd64 allows the selection of NVIDIA as GLX provider ii libegl-nvidia0:amd64 470.103.01-1~bpo11+1 amd64 NVIDIA binary EGL library ii libgl1-nvidia-glvnd-glx:amd64 470.103.01-1~bpo11+1 amd64 NVIDIA binary OpenGL/GLX library (GLVND variant) ii libgles-nvidia1:amd64 470.103.01-1~bpo11+1 amd64 NVIDIA binary OpenGL|ES 1.x library ii libgles-nvidia2:amd64 470.103.01-1~bpo11+1 amd64 NVIDIA binary OpenGL|ES 2.x library ii libglx-nvidia0:amd64 470.103.01-1~bpo11+1 amd64 NVIDIA binary GLX library ii libnvidia-cbl:amd64 470.103.01-1~bpo11+1 amd64 NVIDIA binary Vulkan ray tracing (cbl) library ii libnvidia-cfg1:amd64 470.103.01-1~bpo11+1 amd64 NVIDIA binary OpenGL/GLX configuration library ii libnvidia-egl-wayland1:amd64 1:1.1.5-1 amd64 Wayland EGL External Platform library -- shared library ii libnvidia-eglcore:amd64 470.103.01-1~bpo11+1 amd64 NVIDIA binary EGL core libraries ii libnvidia-encode1:amd64 470.103.01-1~bpo11+1 amd64 NVENC Video Encoding runtime library ii libnvidia-glcore:amd64 470.103.01-1~bpo11+1 amd64 NVIDIA binary OpenGL/GLX core libraries ii libnvidia-glvkspirv:amd64 470.103.01-1~bpo11+1 amd64 NVIDIA binary Vulkan Spir-V compiler library ii libnvidia-ml1:amd64 470.103.01-1~bpo11+1 amd64 NVIDIA Management Library (NVML) runtime library ii libnvidia-ptxjitcompiler1:amd64 470.103.01-1~bpo11+1 amd64 NVIDIA PTX JIT Compiler library ii libnvidia-rtcore:amd64 470.103.01-1~bpo11+1 amd64 NVIDIA binary Vulkan ray tracing (rtcore) library ii nvidia-alternative 470.103.01-1~bpo11+1 amd64 allows the selection of NVIDIA as GLX provider ii nvidia-driver 470.103.01-1~bpo11+1 amd64 NVIDIA metapackage ii nvidia-driver-bin 470.103.01-1~bpo11+1 amd64 NVIDIA driver support binaries ii nvidia-driver-libs:amd64 470.103.01-1~bpo11+1 amd64 NVIDIA metapackage (OpenGL/GLX/EGL/GLES libraries) ii nvidia-egl-common 470.103.01-1~bpo11+1 amd64 NVIDIA binary EGL driver - common files ii nvidia-egl-icd:amd64 470.103.01-1~bpo11+1 amd64 NVIDIA EGL installable client driver (ICD) ii nvidia-installer-cleanup 20151021+13 amd64 cleanup after driver installation with the nvidia-installer ii nvidia-kernel-common 20151021+13 amd64 NVIDIA binary kernel module support files ii nvidia-kernel-dkms 470.103.01-1~bpo11+1 amd64 NVIDIA binary kernel module DKMS source ii nvidia-kernel-support 470.103.01-1~bpo11+1 amd64 NVIDIA binary kernel module support files ii nvidia-legacy-check 470.103.01-1~bpo11+1 amd64 check for NVIDIA GPUs requiring a legacy driver ii nvidia-modprobe 470.94-1~bpo11+1 amd64 utility to load NVIDIA kernel modules and create device nodes ii nvidia-persistenced 460.32.03-1 amd64 daemon to maintain persistent software state in the NVIDIA driver ii nvidia-settings 470.94-1~bpo11+1 amd64 tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver ii nvidia-smi 470.103.01-1~bpo11+1 amd64 NVIDIA System Management Interface ii nvidia-support 20151021+13 amd64 NVIDIA binary graphics driver support files ii nvidia-vdpau-driver:amd64 470.103.01-1~bpo11+1 amd64 Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix - NVIDIA driver ii nvidia-vulkan-common 470.103.01-1~bpo11+1 amd64 NVIDIA Vulkan driver - common files ii nvidia-vulkan-icd:amd64 470.103.01-1~bpo11+1 amd64 NVIDIA Vulkan installable client driver (ICD) ii xserver-xorg-video-nvidia 470.103.01-1~bpo11+1 amd64 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver ``` ---
**Author:** ![generix](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/nvidia/user_avatar/forums.developer.nvidia.com/generix/32/16024_2.png) [@generix](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/generix)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 9:39am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/unable-to-uninstall-update-manually-installed-nvidia-driver/272046/4 "2023-11-07T09:39:07Z")
Your memory fooled you, you installed the driver from debian repo, not using the runfile. The debian 11 repo only provides drivers up to 470, so if you want to upgrade, you’ll either have to use an additional repo (e.g. the nvidia cuda repo) or the runfile installer with --dkms option. In any case, you’ll have to uninstall/purge the installed driver first using apt. ---
**Author:** ![floorsctz](https://developer.download.nvidia.com/images/forums/profile-default-devtalk-84.png) [@floorsctz](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/floorsctz)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 4:57pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/unable-to-uninstall-update-manually-installed-nvidia-driver/272046/5 "2023-11-07T16:57:01Z")
Thanks for the help. Purging all the installed drivers / tools via apt solved the issue ---
**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/nvidia/user_avatar/forums.developer.nvidia.com/system/32/68080_2.png) [@system](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 4:57pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/unable-to-uninstall-update-manually-installed-nvidia-driver/272046/6 "2023-11-21T16:57:28Z")
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