#Four different Nvidia 550 drivers keep coming up in Update Manager?

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warm peak
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I noticed over a number of weeks that I kept getting Nvidia 550 drivers in my update manager every few days. It was just long enough between them that I couldn't remember exact numbers, but the last time I saw them I took a screenshot, today they came up again and the package name is exactly the same.

Screenshot 1 was from the 6th of December, Screenshot 2 was from today, 13th. This has been the longest time between them previously it was every 3 or 4 days.

They have different alpha-numeric codes under the new version, so I assume they're minor updates to the same driver revision?

But should there be four? I can see there's GL32 I'm assuming that's 32bit drivers, but why are there 550-107-02 and 550-120 versions, shouldn't it just be one or the other?

Appreciate any help, even if it's just assurance that this is normal.

I'm on Linux Mint 22 with KDE Plasma as the DE.
GPU is a 4080 super.

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vestal tapir
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This is not normal, but you are running a butchered Mint with KDE, so get used to not normal.

warm peak
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I wasn't aware that changing a desktop environment was considered butchering, with all the "Linux allows you to customise" comments I always saw.

Anyway a helpful user on another server was able to assist. I'll leave the solution here in case others find it and want a better answer than "get used to not normal."

Solution

Flatpak can't yet figure out which Nvidia runtimes are stale
You can manually remove the stale ones

Check installed packaged with

this was mine

nvidia-550-120  org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-550-120              1.4    system
nvidia-550-107-02       org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-550-107-02        1.4      system
nvidia-550-120  org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-550-120            1.4    system

I then uninstalled the old ones.

flatpak uninstall org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-550-107-02

flatpak uninstall org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-550-107-02

Now looks like this

nvidia-550-120  org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-550-120              1.4     system
nvidia-550-120  org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-550-120            1.4     system