#1107396 nvidia-driver: Nvidia-driver metapackage doesnt install kernel headers

Package:
nvidia-driver
Source:
nvidia-driver
Submitter:
Thomas Ferry
Date:
2025-06-07 03:36:03 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1107396#5
Date:
2025-06-07 03:34:23 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

Forgive I am not the best at this.

If you install the meta package nvidia-driver from the repository. DKMS will not compile a module because the kernel headers are not installed if you let it go without the headers upon reboot
you just get a terminal and no graphical output at all.

How I came to it is when I took notice when DKMS didn't compile a module for me and figured out.. packages where missing from the meta-package. So i just looked at Debian 12's and compared
and noticed the kernel-headers weren't there. Take a bit a shot in the dark and purged again installed the headers then the nvidia-driver. It worked.

I apolgize this is prolly not the best written.