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I have been trying to install nvidia-driver-390 for my graphics card GK107GLM [Quadro K1100M].

Firstly, I tried to follow these instructions. I go through the normal steps of adding the repo and updating my apt-get. But the driver I am looking for is not there.

So I looked into where I can find the correct driver on nvidia.com. I can see nvidia-driver-390 and see my graphics card, Quadro K1100M, listed as supported. I download the .run file and use the instruction provided at How to install NVIDIA.run? and similar one here on Ubuntu Forums to install it. My pre-install fails with the details of /var/log/nvidia-installer.log as given below:

zero@knowzero:/var/log$ more nvidia-installer.log 
nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log'
creation time: Sun May 24 11:38:28 2020
installer version: 390.132

PATH: /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/u
sr/local/games


nvidia-installer command line:
    ./nvidia-installer


Unable to load: nvidia-installer ncurses v6 user interface


Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface
-> Detected 8 CPUs online; setting concurrency level to 8.
-> Installing NVIDIA driver version 390.132.
-> Running distribution scripts
   executing: '/usr/lib/nvidia/pre-install'...
-> done.
-> The distribution-provided pre-install script failed!  Are you sure you want t
o continue? (Answer: Abort installation)
ERROR: Installation has failed.  Please see the file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.
log' for details.  You may find suggestions on fixing installation problems in t
he README available on the Linux driver download page at www.nvidia.com.

How can I sort this out? I do have the option of continuing with my installation or abort it. I aborted to not do something that would make my computer unusable.

Edit: Just to clarify, the only reason I was using .run file was because when I did

sudo apt-get install nvidia-driver-3

and pressed Tab, I did not get the driver listed. So I thought it is somehow not there in the repository. But when I restarted and tried it again, it worked. I do not know what went wrong initially but it's fine. Seems like I jumped the gun.

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The 390 driver is in the official Ubuntu repositories.

It can be installed by

sudo apt install nvidia-driver-390

I can't understand what is the problem. Installing from .run files is wrong for Ubuntu

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