Avoiding nvidia (Whisper) 25.12.0

I know I should probably free up more space somehow, but I don’t know what else to delete (I have already tried looking at Qdirstat to assess what can go). I am not using any Nvidia hardware on this laptop & would like to know whether I can avoid installing the Nvidia component(s) when installing Whisper.

If I am not going senile, I think I remember deleting the nvidia components after I installed Whisper in the past, with no ill effects. But that was after the fact. Anyway, now I am installing it but can’t succeed without freeing up a chunk of space for the space-hogging Nvidia bits.

Downloading nvidia_cudnn_cu12-9.10.2.21-py3-none-manylinux_2_27_x86_64.whl (706.8 MB)

ERROR: Could not install packages due to an OSError: [Errno 28] No space left on device

Linux 12 (bookworm), appimage