Need help installing nvidia drivers on ubuntu

[Nicnac]

Hey guys I'm a total noob and I can't find useful info on google for this... nothing seems to work

I am trying to get nvidia drivers for my machine with a 1050 ti

I believe i need the 390 driver from what I could tell.

When trying to do that through the Software & Updates GUI it always jumps back to the X.org driver and never finishes.

using

sudo apt-get install nvidia 390

didn't work, neither does

sudo apt-get install nvidia-driver-390

it always ends with saying it "has no installation candidate"

I'm really a noob concerning anything but basic unix stuff so please help

[Sauron]

Here's a tutorial, you need to add the correct repository.

 

It wouldn't have helped you in this case, but if you don't know the exact name of a package you can use apt's search function:

apt search ...

also you can use "apt" instead of "apt-get" for pretty much everything and it's arguably a better program.

[Nicnac]

3 minutes ago, Sauron said:

Here's a tutorial, you need to add the correct repository.

 

It wouldn't have helped you in this case, but if you don't know the exact name of a package you can use apt's search function:

apt search ...

also you can use "apt" instead of "apt-get" for pretty much everything and it's arguably a better program.

thanks for your response!

 

somehow sudo apt --fix-broken install

seems to have solved the entire issue... does that mean my apt was broken? lol I have no idea how that happened its all on a fresh install...

 

[Sauron]

5 minutes ago, Nicnac said:

thanks for your response!

 

somehow sudo apt --fix-broken install

seems to have solved the entire issue... does that mean my apt was broken? lol I have no idea how that happened its all on a fresh install...

 

The GUI may have broken something, it's hard to say. In general I would recommend using the command line for package management when possible, it's more stable and at least it will warn you if something goes wrong.