Nvidia driver 410 listed by ppa and ubuntu-drivers but does not seem to be installable via apt
Solution 1
Before trying to manually install the proprietary NVIDIA graphics driver version 410.6 I recommend that you try to install it again from the terminal with these commands instead.
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-410 # nvidia-driver-410 has been updated to nvidia-driver-430 in 18.04 sudo reboot
Please note that the correct name of the package that you need to install is nvidia-driver-410 (NVIDIA driver metapackage) not nvidia-410. Installing the NVIDIA driver metapackage will install the NVIDIA graphics driver and several of its required dependency packages.
Update: The nvidia-driver-410 package in the Ubuntu 18.04 repositories has been upgraded to nvidia-driver-430.
If sudo apt install nvidia-driver-410 && sudo reboot
doesn't work, you can also download the NVIDIA 410.6 graphics driver from the official NVIDIA website and install it manually.
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The official NVIDIA DRIVERS Linux x64 webpage -> Supported products tab shows that the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M GPU is compatible with the Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver version 410.6. Click the green Download button on the NVIDIA DRIVERS Linux x64 webpage to download this driver (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-410.66.run).
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Open the terminal and change directories using
cd
to the directory containing the NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-410.66.run file that you downloaded. -
Install NVIDIA Linux x64 Display Driver version 410.6.
sudo chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-410.66.run sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-410.66.run sudo reboot
Solution 2
I was able to install by selecting the specific packages, like this:
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-410 libnvidia-gl-410 nvidia-utils-410 xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-410 libnvidia-cfg1-410 libnvidia-ifr1-410 libnvidia-decode-410 libnvidia-encode-410
Just like @karel said. I wanted to share the dependencies.
spraff
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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spraff over 1 year
I have a GTX 660M and Ubuntu 18.04 64-bit.
According to the official website, the latest graphics driver for this card is version 410.66.
The graphics-drivers PPA says
Current long-lived branch release: `nvidia-410` (410.66)
I have nouveau drivers installed at the moment according to
lsmod
and,apt-get purge 'nvidia*'
does nothing.I have done
add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers
andapt-get update
and a reboot.Running
ubuntu-drivers devices
gives this output== /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 == modalias : pci:v000010DEd00000FD4sv00001028sd00000551bc03sc00i00 vendor : NVIDIA Corporation model : GK107M [GeForce GTX 660M] driver : nvidia-304 - third-party free driver : nvidia-driver-390 - third-party free driver : nvidia-340 - distro non-free driver : nvidia-driver-396 - third-party free driver : nvidia-driver-410 - third-party free recommended driver : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin
Note this line:
driver : nvidia-driver-410 - third-party free recommended
It looks like everything is ready to go to install driver version 410, but autocompleting
apt-get install nvidia-
indicates the highest available version isnvidia-390
, and tryingapt-get install nvidia-410
directly fails.Why does
apt
not list the version 410 that the PPA andubuntu-drivers
both say is there?And if I can't
apt-get install nvidia-410
, how can I install this version? -
Marek Urbanowicz over 5 yearsPackages which you added are automatically installed when installing nvidia-driver-xxx so no need to add them manually