Install nvidia drivers for Ubuntu 18.04 SERVER

Question

I need to install the nvidia drivers for Ubuntu SERVER 18.04.2, to run computations from a headless server on a nvidia RTX card.

I am asking because I have not yet found any clear guide to do that for the server 18.04.2 version of Ubuntu.

Solution

Run the following commands in your terminal to install the latest NVIDIA Drivers:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-drivers-common
sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall

If you get any unmet dependencies problems, manually install those unmet dependencies. For example, if you get:

nvidia-driver-418 : Depends: xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-418  (418.56-0ubuntu0~gpu18.04.1) but it is not going to be installed

Run:

sudo apt install xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-418 nvidia-driver-418

Finally, reboot.

Comments

[Don U.]

This was very help for me and ended up resolving a transcoding problem I was experiencing on my Plex server running Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS. Thank you for the helping the community with this easy to follow post.