How to install Nvidia driver.

The office driver released by nvidia are in shell script form. So, how to install them on Ubuntu? there are some ways to do that:

install from unofficial ppa

This is the easiest way. There is a ppa which repack official released Nvidia driver to debian package.

• https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

pack .runs to debian package manually (ex. 375.30).

• get source
  • $ apt-get source nvidia-375
  • or there also a duplicate on github
    • $ git clone git@github.com:alex-tu-cc/nvidia-graphics-drivers.git -b 375
• clean old stuff
  • $ debclean
• update changelog for target driver version
  • $ debch
  • ex nvidia-graphics-drivers-375 (375.30-0ubuntu0~gpu16.04.1) xenial; urgency=medium
• rename the .run file for amd64 to meet debian/rule requirement.
  • ex. $ mv NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-375.30.run NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-375.30-no-compat32.run
• build it manually.
  • debuild -i -b -us -uc
• or build it in docker alextucc/build-pkg:base .
  • install dependencies
    • # /usr/sbin/install-deps-from-debian.sh
  • build it manyally
    • # usr/sbin/build-debian-package.sh
• https://github.com/mamarley/nvidia-graphics-drivers/

install from .run directly. (tested on intel + Nvidia laptop)

• backup original /etc/X11/xorg.conf which generated by gpu-manager in performance mode.
  • performance mode means the mode which be set by prime-select nvidia
• purge original nvidia drivers(ex. ver. 375)
• dpkg -l | grep 375 | awk '{print $2}' | xargs sudo apt-get purge -y
• ctrl+F1 to get console terminal and systemctl stop lightdm
• install NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-375.30.run and NVIDIA-Linux-x86-375.30.run as well.
• reboot and login
• sudo touch /var/lib/ubuntu-drivers-common/requires_offloading
• sudo /sbin/prime-offload
• then you can see it refer to the expected the libGL and libGLX in ldd /usr/bin/glxgears