I am running Ubuntu 20.04 Server edition with minimal X11 installed (no desktop managers)
I want to install nvidia-settings ver 470 but it looks like it wants to pull in gnome desktop. Any ideas on how to stop this? Am I reading this right that it will pull in gnome desktop? I used sudo apt-get install nvidia-settings --no-install-recommends --no-install-suggests
but it still brought in a ton of gnome software.
Just to note....on my Gentoo system nvidia-settings version 370 didn't pull in gnome desktop. Not sure why it is on Ubuntu with version 470
This happens because of dependencies. See terminal output from 20.04 LTS installed from mini.iso:
In the above output you should note that gnome-shell is not located in Recommends or Suggests sections, so is not optional.
Or use packages.ubuntu.com - check pages for
nvidia-settings
and its dependency namedscreen-resolution-extra
.With known Gentoo terminology this means that Ubuntu uses gnome or gnome-shell USE-flag for nvidia-settings package.
Possible way to get minimal set of dependent package is to install
lxpolkit
package instead ofgnome-shell
as follows:and optionally install minimal desktop environment by
or install full Lubuntu desktop by