Install GPU graphic drivers

Support & Help Requests
1

Hello, pls help me

I want to install GPU, model: Nvidia GP 108[Geforce GT 1030] on my pc.

I try to install on the additional drivers but it did not work.

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I tried the following commands from the command line:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers
sudo apt-get purge nvidia
sudo apt-get update

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Hello Gabriel

As far as I know Nvidia hardware and GNU/Linux operating systems are not the best of friends. And that is a situation that has existed for a long time.

If you have already spent your money (which it seems you have), and you cannot find help here or on the Ubuntu forums, you may find one of the following useful. Firstly, if you are not already running Ubuntu-Mate 18.10 try it to see if it helps. I understand that 18.10 has a newer kernel (which often helps with hardware problems). Secondly, if you have no success with Ubuntu-Mate or an Ubuntu flavour you could always try another distribution. That being said, the Ubuntu-base has always had a good reputation as far as providing drivers for various hardware is concerned. :slightly_smiling_face:

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What do you mean? What happens if you select one of the nVidia drivers (390, 396 or 410) and press "apply changes"?

I tried the following commands from the command line:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers
sudo apt-get purge nvidia
sudo apt-get update

First, if you want to purge a package that is updated by a PPA, you should remove it before adding the PPA, in case you believe it's packaged differently and a simple upgrade could break APT. You should either:

  1. add a PPA
  2. upgrade the packages

or, if you think that they're packaged differently:

  1. remove/purge the relevant packages
  2. add the PPA
  3. reinstall the packages that were removed (they will be from the PPA)

In any case, that's only if you think (from experience) that the packaging is different in the PPA. In most cases, you won't need to remove/reinstall packages, they'll be upgraded fine.

Second, there's no package named "nvidia" in the repos, you're trying to remove an inexistant package with your command #2, it did nothing. The nVidia drivers are packaged on Ubuntu in the form of nvidia-xxx, where xxx is the version of the driver: nvidia-396, nvidia-410, nvidia-390... These are the packages that would be installed from the driver manager.

So, now that you've added the graphic drivers PPA, what happens with the drivers manager and, if it doesn't work, what happens if you try to install a driver in command line, e.g.:

sudo apt-get install nvidia-410

(Replace by a different number if you want an older version.)