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This tutorial will be showing you 2 ways to install Nvidia graphics card driver on Ubuntu 18.04. The first method uses graphical user interface (GUI); The second method is done from the command line interface (CLI). Ubuntu comes with the open-source nouveau driver which is included in the Linux kernel for Nvidia cards. However, this driver lacks 3D acceleration support. If you are a gamer or need to work with 3D graphics, then you will benefit from the better performance of the proprietary Nvidia driver.
Note: Before installing the proprietary driver, I recommend disabling secure boot if you are using UEFI firmware. If secure boot is enabled, you might encounter problems after installing Nvidia driver. This tutorial also assumes that you are running Ubuntu 18.04 with x.org display server.
How to Install Nvidia Graphics Driver on Ubuntu 18.04 From Graphical User Interface
First, go to system settings > details and check what graphics card your computer is using. By default, your integrated graphics card (Intel HD Graphics) is being used.
Then open softare & updates program from you application menu. Click the additional drivers tab. You can see what driver is being used for Nvidia card (Nouveau by default) and a list of proprietary drivers.
As you can see nvidia-driver-430 and nvidia-driver-390 are available for my GeForce GTX 1080 Ti card. So I select the first option to install nvidia-driver-430. Your mileage may vary. There might be some other drivers for your particular card. Click Apply Changes button to install the driver.
After it's installed, reboot your computer for the change to take effect. After that, go to system settings > details, you will see Ubuntu is using Nvidia graphics card.
If you want Ubuntu to use Intel graphics card, openNvidia X Server Settings from application menu. ClickPRIME Profiles tab on the left pane, and then select Intel card on the right pane.
To switch back to Nvidia card, simply select NVIDIA inPRIME Profiles.
How to Install Nvidia Driver on Ubuntu 18.04 From the Command Line
First, open up a terminal window and check which driver is being used for Nvidia card with the following command.
sudo lshw -c display
You can also use video instead of display as the class name.
sudo lshw -c video
By default, the open-source nouveau driver is being used for Nvidia card.
Next, run the following command to list available driver for your Nvidia card from the default Ubuntu repository.
sudo ubuntu-drivers devices
As you can see, there are 3 drivers available for my GeForce GTX 1080 Ti card. Two are proprietary (non-free) drivers, which is recommend by Ubuntu. The other is the default open-source Nouveau driver. There may be some other drivers for your Nvidia card. To install the recommended driver, run the following command.
sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
This will install some 32 bit packages as indicated by the i386 suffix. If you want to install a particular driver, run the following command.
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-version-number For example:
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-430
After the driver is installed, we need to run the following command to reboot the computer, in order to enable nvidia-prime, which is technology to switch between Intel and Nvidia graphics card.
sudo shutdown -r now
Now the proprietary Nvidia driver is being used.
sudo lshw -c display
You can check which card is being used now with the following command:
prime-select query
If you want to use Intel graphics card, run the following command:
sudo prime-select intel
To switch back to Nvidia card, run
sudo prime-select nvidia
Notice that you may need a reboot for the change to take effect.
Install the Latest Version Of Nvidia Drivers via PPA
Update: Canonical now includes the latest version of Nvidia drivers in Ubuntu LTS repository. The information in this section is for archive purpose only. You can ignore it.
Nvidia website maintains a page for its latest driver for Unix/Linux platforms. On this page, you can see the latest version of Nvidia drivers. At the time of this writing, the latest version is 430.40. Clicking the version number will take you to a page where you can see changelogs and whether your card is supported or not.
The driver included in the default Ubuntu repository can be outdated but more stable. If you would like to install the latest version, you can add a PPA maintained by Ubuntu Team.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
Notice that you don't need to manually run sudo apt update after adding PPA on Ubuntu 18.04. This operation becomes automatic on Ubuntu 18.04. Now you can run:
sudo ubuntu-drivers devices
The newest version becomes the recommended driver.
Now you can run the following command to install the newest version.
sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
This PPA is still considered testing. Sometimes you might encounter dependency problems like below.
If you prefer stability over bleeding-edge, you can quit installing it. But if you are willing to take risks, you can upgrade the libraries by running the following command.
sudo apt upgrade
Then re-run the install command.
sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
If there are still dependency problems, you can manually install them. For example, I saw the following error message.
The following packages have unmet dependencies: nvidia-driver-396 : Depends: xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-396 (= 396.24.02-0ubuntu0~gpu18.04.1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libnvidia-cfg1-396 (= 396.24.02-0ubuntu0~gpu18.04.1) but it is not going to be installed
I ran this command to fix the issue.
sudo apt install libnvidia-cfg1-396 xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-396 nvidia-driver-396
Once the newest version is installed, reboot your computer.
sudo shutdown -r now
Help Files
You can find the help files by running the following command.
dpkg -L nvidia-driver-390
Replace 390 with your driver version number.
How to Uninstall the Proprietary Nvidia Driver on Ubuntu 18.04
If for some reason you don't want the proprietary driver anymore, you can remove it by running the following command.
sudo apt purge nvidia-* sudo apt autoremove
To remove Nvidia driver PPA, run:
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
I hope this tutorial helped you install Nvidia driver on Ubuntu 18.04 desktop, either from GUI or from the command line. As always, if you found this post useful, then subscribe to our free newsletter to get more tips and tricks. Take care.
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