Some nvidia driver package always asks for upgrade after updated to 450

Ubuntu 18.04, After I upgrade to version 450 driver by apt install nvidia-driver-450, the 440 driver packages were automatically remove. Everything works fine but apt always asks me to upgrade those packages:

$ apt list --upgradable
Listing... Done
libnvidia-cfg1-450/unknown 450.36.06-0ubuntu1 amd64 [upgradable from: 450.36.06-0ubuntu1]
libnvidia-common-450/unknown 450.36.06-0ubuntu1 all [upgradable from: 450.36.06-0ubuntu1]
libnvidia-compute-450/unknown 450.36.06-0ubuntu1 amd64 [upgradable from: 450.36.06-0ubuntu1]
libnvidia-decode-450/unknown 450.36.06-0ubuntu1 amd64 [upgradable from: 450.36.06-0ubuntu1]
libnvidia-encode-450/unknown 450.36.06-0ubuntu1 amd64 [upgradable from: 450.36.06-0ubuntu1]
libnvidia-fbc1-450/unknown 450.36.06-0ubuntu1 amd64 [upgradable from: 450.36.06-0ubuntu1]
libnvidia-gl-450/unknown 450.36.06-0ubuntu1 amd64 [upgradable from: 450.36.06-0ubuntu1]
libnvidia-ifr1-450/unknown 450.36.06-0ubuntu1 amd64 [upgradable from: 450.36.06-0ubuntu1]
libxnvctrl0/unknown 450.36.06-0ubuntu1 amd64 [upgradable from: 450.36.06-0ubuntu1]
numix-icon-theme-circle/bionic,bionic 19.12.27+202006072001~ubuntu18.04.1 all [upgradable from: 19.12.27+202005141854~ubuntu18.04.1]
nvidia-dkms-450/unknown 450.36.06-0ubuntu1 amd64 [upgradable from: 450.36.06-0ubuntu1]
nvidia-kernel-source-450/unknown 450.36.06-0ubuntu1 amd64 [upgradable from: 450.36.06-0ubuntu1]


$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libnvidia-cfg1-450 libnvidia-common-450 libnvidia-compute-450 libnvidia-decode-450
  libnvidia-encode-450 libnvidia-fbc1-450 libnvidia-gl-450 libnvidia-ifr1-450 libxnvctrl0
  numix-icon-theme-circle nvidia-dkms-450 nvidia-kernel-source-450
12 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 96.6 MB/96.7 MB of archives.
After this operation, 753 kB of additional disk space will be used.

As you can see the version is the same... So after I do this upgrade it still tells me to upgrade.

Of course I did apt update and apt clean but it still doesn't work.

(NVIDIA drivers from this repo: deb http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu1804/x86_64 / )

Solution 1:

The issue with the metadata in the CUDA repository has been resolved. Run apt-get update and try again.

Also, keep in mind you can file a bug: https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia_bug/add

You will need to sign-in/sign-up for a NVIDIA developer account. Then choose

• Relevant Area
  • Other
    • CUDA Installer

Solution 2:

I noticed that I can ignore this upgrade message without any problem. So I typed:

sudo apt-mark hold libnvidia-cfg1-450 libnvidia-common-450 libnvidia-compute-450 libnvidia-decode-450 libnvidia-encode-450 libnvidia-fbc1-450 libnvidia-gl-450 libnvidia-ifr1-450 libxnvctrl0 nvidia-dkms-450 nvidia-kernel-source-450

Now I have no need to type n.