Installing Nvidia graphics driver in Ubuntu 20.04
Remove all the nvidia packages.
sudo apt update sudo apt-get remove '^nvidia' sudo apt autoremove
If you have added an Nvidia PPA to
/etc/apt/sources.list
remove that PPA by prefacing its line in sources.list with a#
to comment it out. Runsudo apt update
to refresh the list of available software.Reboot with
sudo reboot
Run the following commands to install the Nvidia 450 driver.
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-450 sudo reboot
After you have installed the nvidia-driver-450 graphics driver in Ubuntu 20.04 it may be updated from nvidia-driver-450 to nvidia-driver-460 by the normal software update activity.
As an alternative to step 4 you can let the ubuntu-drivers
program automatically select the proprietary Nvidia packages that are most compatible with your GPU instead of guessing which Nvidia driver packages to install. This method would especially apply in 2022 and later because nvidia-driver-450 is currently a transitional package for nvidia-driver-460 in Ubuntu 20.04. To install the Nvidia proprietary driver this way run the following command instead of the commands in step 4.
sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall && sudo reboot
These steps are still working for nvidia-driver-470.
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Vincent Paing
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Vincent Paing over 1 year
I run the following command
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-450
But it throws out an error with the following
Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information msudo apt install nvidia-driver-450 sudo rebootay help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: nvidia-driver-450 : Depends: libnvidia-gl-450 (= 450.80.02-0ubuntu1) but 450.80.02-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 is to be installed Depends: nvidia-dkms-450 (= 450.80.02-0ubuntu1) Recommends: nvidia-settings but it is not going to be installed Recommends: nvidia-prime (>= 0.8) but it is not installable Recommends: libnvidia-compute-450:i386 (= 450.80.02-0ubuntu1) Recommends: libnvidia-decode-450:i386 (= 450.80.02-0ubuntu1) Recommends: libnvidia-encode-450:i386 (= 450.80.02-0ubuntu1) Recommends: libnvidia-ifr1-450:i386 (= 450.80.02-0ubuntu1) Recommends: libnvidia-fbc1-450:i386 (= 450.80.02-0ubuntu1) Recommends: libnvidia-gl-450:i386 (= 450.80.02-0ubuntu1) E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
I also tried installing nvidia-prime but it said there's no installation candidate. I tried everything I found on askubuntu here and still couldn't solve it. Anything I missed out?
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Hack06 over 2 yearsThanks, those steps still working for driver version 470.