# Can't install nvidia-smi

**URL:** <https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/t/cant-install-nvidia-smi/3425>\
**Category:** Technical Help\
**Created:** [January 2, 2023, 6:20pm UTC](https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/t/cant-install-nvidia-smi/3425 "2023-01-02T18:20:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 7

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![shay9000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@shay9000](https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/u/shay9000)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 4:13pm UTC](https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/t/cant-install-nvidia-smi/3425/7 "2023-01-06T16:13:12Z")

</div>

> [@cody\_b](#):
>
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d

I commented out lines 57 and 59 of /etc/apt/sources.list  
56: ## Lambda Labs software repository  
57: #deb [http://archive.lambdalabs.com/ubuntu](http://archive.lambdalabs.com/ubuntu) focal main  
58: # deb-src [http://archive.lambdalabs.com/ubuntu](http://archive.lambdalabs.com/ubuntu) focal main  
59: #deb [Index of /compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2004/x86\_64](http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2004/x86_64/)\>  
60: # deb-src [http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2004/x8](http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2004/x8)\>

and commented out line 1 of /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lambda-repository.list which now looks like this  
1: #deb [http://archive.lambdalabs.com/ubuntu](http://archive.lambdalabs.com/ubuntu) focal main  
2: # deb-src [http://archive.lambdalabs.com/ubuntu](http://archive.lambdalabs.com/ubuntu) focal main

Now the output looks like this:

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

Hit:1 [Index of /ubuntu](http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) focal-security InRelease  
Hit:2 [Index of /repos/code/](http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code) stable InRelease  
Hit:3 [https://download.sublimetext.com](https://download.sublimetext.com) apt/stable/ InRelease  
Hit:4 [Index of /ubuntu](http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) focal InRelease  
Hit:5 [Index of /ubuntu](http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) focal-updates InRelease  
Hit:6 [Index of /ubuntu](http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) focal-backports InRelease  
Reading package lists…  
Building dependency tree…  
Reading state information…  
21 packages can be upgraded. Run ‘apt list --upgradable’ to see them.

If I uncomment line 1 of /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lambda-repository.list which now looks like this  
1: deb [http://archive.lambdalabs.com/ubuntu](http://archive.lambdalabs.com/ubuntu) focal main  
2: # deb-src [http://archive.lambdalabs.com/ubuntu](http://archive.lambdalabs.com/ubuntu) focal main

The output looks like this:

Hit:1 [Index of /repos/code/](http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code) stable InRelease  
Get:2 [http://archive.lambdalabs.com/ubuntu](http://archive.lambdalabs.com/ubuntu) focal InRelease [3176 B]  
Hit:3 [https://download.sublimetext.com](https://download.sublimetext.com) apt/stable/ InRelease  
Get:4 [http://archive.lambdalabs.com/ubuntu](http://archive.lambdalabs.com/ubuntu) focal/main amd64 Packages [92.1 kB]  
Hit:5 [Index of /ubuntu](http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) focal-security InRelease  
Get:6 [http://archive.lambdalabs.com/ubuntu](http://archive.lambdalabs.com/ubuntu) focal/main i386 Packages [30.8 kB]  
Hit:7 [Index of /ubuntu](http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) focal InRelease  
Hit:8 [Index of /ubuntu](http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) focal-updates InRelease  
Hit:9 [Index of /ubuntu](http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) focal-backports InRelease  
Fetched 126 kB in 4s (35.0 kB/s)  
Reading package lists… Done  
Building dependency tree  
Reading state information… Done  
16 packages can be upgraded. Run ‘apt list --upgradable’ to see them.

---

_[View the full topic](https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/t/cant-install-nvidia-smi/3425)._
