Nvidia drivers

To install the last Nvidia drivers, you have to add the repository (“PPA”) to your package sources, update the sources and list the available drivers:

First check whether your distro already uses the latest Nvidia drivers. That seems to be the case for the latest Ubuntu distros / flavours. You can do so by issuing the command


sudo apt list --installed | grep nvidia-driver

While I wrote this documentation the current version was 5.70


sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo ubuntu-drivers devices

You can start the installation with:


sudo apt install nvidia-driver-570

Should you need to uninstall the drivers, you can do so with the command:


sudo apt purge nvidia-*
sudo apt autoremove

To rempove the repo, use the command:


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