nvidia-modprobe command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

nvidia-modprobe: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: nvidia-modprobe: command not found

Solutions to nvidia-modprobe: command not found

How To Fix nvidia-modprobe: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu nvidia-modprobe is provided by nvidia-modprobe package.

nvidia-modprobe is:

This setuid program is used to create NVIDIA Linux device files and load the NVIDIA kernel module, on behalf of NVIDIA Linux driver components which may not have sufficient privileges to perform these actions on their own.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install nvidia-modprobe

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install nvidia-modprobe.

sudo apt -y install nvidia-modprobe

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install nvidia-modprobe

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix nvidia-modprobe command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.