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Enable Pop_OS Beta Channels in Apt

Want to grab beta drivers/kernels from the Pop! Team before they hit the stable branches? Follow this guide!

Info gotten from this reddit thread by a popos engineer

Commands

For each of these, check the branches currently available on the repo, and use that to choose the version you'd like!

For example, I wanted to get onto the latest nvidia drivers for a newer card, and off of 545, so I checked the repo and saw this:

image

And from there I was able to update to v550.54.14

NVidia Drivers

https://github.com/pop-os/nvidia-graphics-drivers

sudo apt-manage add popdev:nvidia-550.54.14

Mesa

https://github.com/pop-os/mesa

sudo apt-manage add popdev:mesa-22.3.4

Linux Kernel

https://github.com/pop-os/linux

sudo apt-manage add popdev:linux-6.1.11

Removal

IMPORANT, DO NOT SKIP THIS

Once PRs are merged into the main branch, you'll need to remove the staging branches on your local machine to avoid issues

sudo apt-manage remove popdev-{{branch-name}}
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