Installing Nvidia graphics driver in Ubuntu 20.04

Question

I run the following command

sudo apt install nvidia-driver-450

But it throws out an error with the following

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information msudo apt install nvidia-driver-450
sudo rebootay help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 nvidia-driver-450 : Depends: libnvidia-gl-450 (= 450.80.02-0ubuntu1) but 450.80.02-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 is to be installed
                     Depends: nvidia-dkms-450 (= 450.80.02-0ubuntu1)
                     Recommends: nvidia-settings but it is not going to be installed
                     Recommends: nvidia-prime (>= 0.8) but it is not installable
                     Recommends: libnvidia-compute-450:i386 (= 450.80.02-0ubuntu1)
                     Recommends: libnvidia-decode-450:i386 (= 450.80.02-0ubuntu1)
                     Recommends: libnvidia-encode-450:i386 (= 450.80.02-0ubuntu1)
                     Recommends: libnvidia-ifr1-450:i386 (= 450.80.02-0ubuntu1)
                     Recommends: libnvidia-fbc1-450:i386 (= 450.80.02-0ubuntu1)
                     Recommends: libnvidia-gl-450:i386 (= 450.80.02-0ubuntu1)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I also tried installing nvidia-prime but it said there's no installation candidate. I tried everything I found on askubuntu here and still couldn't solve it. Anything I missed out?

try install libnvidia-gl-450, nvidia-dkms-450 first. Then install nvidia-driver-450. — Po Freidu, Oct 13 '20 at 15:16
Try using this script https://github.com/TirsvadCLI/Linux.NvidiaGpuDriverInstall It is testet on debian and working — Tirsvad, Sep 07 '22 at 21:21

karel · Answer 1 · 2023-07-25T05:26:29.667

Remove all the nvidia packages.

sudo apt update
sudo apt-get remove '^nvidia'
sudo apt autoremove

If you have added an Nvidia PPA to /etc/apt/sources.list remove that PPA by prefacing its line in sources.list with a # to comment it out. Run sudo apt update to refresh the list of available software.
Reboot with sudo reboot
Run the following commands to install the Nvidia 450 driver.
```
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-450
sudo reboot
```

After you have installed the nvidia-driver-450 graphics driver in Ubuntu 20.04 it may be updated from nvidia-driver-450 to nvidia-driver-460 by the normal software update activity.

As an alternative to step 4 you can let the ubuntu-drivers program automatically select the proprietary Nvidia packages that are most compatible with your GPU instead of guessing which Nvidia driver packages to install. This method would especially apply in 2022 and later because nvidia-driver-450 is currently a transitional package for nvidia-driver-460 in Ubuntu 20.04. To install the Nvidia proprietary driver this way run the following command instead of the commands in step 4.

sudo ubuntu-drivers install && sudo reboot

These steps are still working for nvidia-driver-470.

Thanks, those steps still working for driver version 470. – Hack06 Jan 03 '22 at 19:27 — Hack06, Jan 03 '22 at 19:27

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 23 '20 at 00:52

I had a similar problem;

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 nvidia-driver-450 : Depends: libnvidia-compute-450 (= 450.80.02-0ubuntu0.20.04.2) but 450.80.02-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
                     Depends: libnvidia-decode-450 (= 450.80.02-0ubuntu0.20.04.2) but it is not going to be installed
                     Depends: libnvidia-encode-450 (= 450.80.02-0ubuntu0.20.04.2) but it is not going to be installed
                     Recommends: nvidia-settings but it is not going to be installed
                     Recommends: nvidia-prime (>= 0.8) but it is not going to be installed
                     Recommends: libnvidia-compute-450:i386 (= 450.80.02-0ubuntu0.20.04.2)
                     Recommends: libnvidia-decode-450:i386 (= 450.80.02-0ubuntu0.20.04.2)
                     Recommends: libnvidia-encode-450:i386 (= 450.80.02-0ubuntu0.20.04.2)
                     Recommends: libnvidia-ifr1-450:i386 (= 450.80.02-0ubuntu0.20.04.2)
                     Recommends: libnvidia-fbc1-450:i386 (= 450.80.02-0ubuntu0.20.04.2)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I had already removed and purged all nvidia* packages via the following commands;

sudo apt-get remove nvidia*
sudo apt-get purge nvidia*
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean

I resolved the issue by the following;

sudo apt-get remove libnvidia*
sudo apt-get purge libnvidia*

Installing Nvidia graphics driver in Ubuntu 20.04

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