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I followed these steps to install nvidia driver 440 in ubuntu system of version 16.04. My graphics card model is nvidia GeForce GTX 1080

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa

sudo apt-get update

When I do ubuntu-drivers devices

It shows like

== /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 ==
manual_install: True
modalias : pci:v000010DEd00001B80sv000010DEsd0000119Ebc03sc00i00
vendor   : NVIDIA Corporation
driver   : nvidia-430 - third-party free recommended
driver   : nvidia-415 - third-party free
driver   : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin
driver   : nvidia-418 - third-party free
driver   : nvidia-410 - third-party free
driver   : nvidia-384 - distro non-free

In the above output the driver 440 is not present.

sudo apt-get install nvidia-440

The output of the above line is

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package nvidia-440 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'nvidia-440' has no installation candidate
Pavithran
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  • Did you look at what that PPA provides for xenial; I don't see any 440 available - https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa?field.series_filter=xenial – guiverc Jun 30 '20 at 09:48

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If you look at the PPA you can see that 440 is not available for 16.04

sudo apt install nvidia-graphics-drivers-430

This is the latest version on 16.04 on the PPA, to get 440 you need to upgrade to a newer release, 18.04 or 20.04 both have a package for 440 and are LTS releases.

You can get a 440 binary from Nvidia and try to install that using this guide but it is not ideal as there are no automatic updates and you would need to install it for every update.

Mark Kirby
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