Wednesday, August 29, 2018

gnome - Cannot install nvidia graphics driver 390 on Ubuntu 18.04



After facing issues with nvidia 396, I wanted to move back to nvidia 390 on Ubuntu 18.04.
I purged nvidia from the system, moving back to the default xorg driver.



I then added the repository ($ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa ), and tried to install 390 by






$ sudo apt install nvidia-driver-390





However, this is also installing nvidia 396 on my machine.
How can I install 390?



Thanks.




Solved.
What was happening was that another ppa was interfering and the download was taking place from that repo.



It was the System76 Pop repository. I removed it from Software and Updates.



After that, running





$ sudo apt install nvidia-driver-390






installs the 390 driver as expected.


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