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[Brian Dilley]

nevermind, i found the headless package for 18.

On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 12:53 PM Brian Dilley <briandilley at briandilley.com>
wrote:

> I noticed in ubuntu 19 there were "headless" versions of the nvidia
> drivers, but they do not exist for 18.  I need to use the GPU headless on a
> server, might there be anything special that i need to do for that?
>
> On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 4:34 AM Tim Müller <tim at centricular.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2020-01-09 at 02:27 -0800, Brian Dilley wrote:
>>
>> Hi Brian,
>>
>> Should I build the entirety of gstreamer from scratch?  Should I not
>> install the gstreamer packages that come with ubuntu and instead build them
>> with gst-build?  I noticed ubuntu 18.04 (LTS) has gstreamer 1.14 while
>> ubuntu 19.x (beta) has 1.16... should I just build 1.16 from GStreamer
>> master (I assume that GStreamer master is 1.16) on Ubuntu 18.04 ?
>>
>>
>> master is master branch (1.17.x, to be 1.18 one day), 1.16 is 1.16 branch
>> :)
>>
>> I don't think the ubuntu packages include the nvidia plugin, so you will
>> likely have to build them yourself in any case.
>>
>> You can try to just build the 1.16 plugin of course and use package
>> versions otherwise, but my recommendation would still be to not install the
>> gstreamer packages at all and go for gst-build git master branch instead
>> (perhaps with a sudo apt build-dep gstreamer1.0-plugins-base
>> gstreamer1.0-plugins-good gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly
>> gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-libav beforehand).
>>
>> Cheers
>> Tim
>>
>> --
>> Tim Müller, Centricular Ltd - http://www.centricular.com
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