WARNING: nvidia-installer was forced to guess the X library path '/usr/lib' and X module path '/usr/lib/xorg/modules' these paths were not queryable from the system. Sudo chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-460.67.runįollow all the prompts the installer gives.ĭuring installation, you may get a warning similar to the one below. I ran the following commands: cd ~/Įxecute the command sudo apt-get install build-essential gcc-multilib dkms. sudo apt-get purge nvidia*įor me, I chose the 460.67 driver, which is the latest production branch version at the time of writing this. I tried to install the driver via apt previously, which failed, so I had to ensure any previous NVIDIA packages were removed.

Remove Any Previous Installations (*IMPORTANT*) As I initially stated in my question, attempting to install the driver on my Ubuntu 20.04 server OS didn't work (maybe it's a bug, I'm not sure), but I've detailed the exact steps I took below, which worked for me.Īfter getting the driver to work, I could just install CUDA the standard way.

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