Install / Uninstall NVIDIA Driver 390.42 On Ubuntu / LinuxMint

In this Tutorial, I will tell you how to install the Latest stable version of NVIDIA Graphics driver 390.42 On Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and LinuxMint 18.

Nvidia Linux Display Driver is a proprietary, yet freely distributed OpenGL video driver that aims to offer support for Nvidia graphics cards on any Linux kernel-based operating system.

This version has been designed to be installed on computers supporting the 64-bit & 32-bit architecture and released on 12th March 2018 with a bug fix.

What's New in 390.42

• Fixed a regression, introduced in 390.12, that caused occasional flicker when using the X driver's composition pipeline, for example when using screen transformations like rotation, or the "ForceCompositionPipeline" or "ForceFullCompositionPipeline" options."

Installation steps

• Method 1: Via PPA
• Method 2: Via Source file

Method 1: Via PPA

Step 1: Remove older version of NVIDIA if your graphic is supported

sudo apt-get purge nvidia*

Step 2: Add the PPA

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers

Step 3: Update the repos

sudo apt-get update

Step 4: Install Nvidia graphics driver 390.42

Goto Softwares&Updates which is in System Settings and select the required driver version from the Additional Drivers tab, select the driver and click on Apply changes and then restart the pc

Note: IF you face any issues refer this link to Troubleshoot

Method 2: Via Source file

Step 1: Remove older version of NVIDIA if your graphic is supported

sudo apt-get purge nvidia*

Step 2: Reboot the system

Step 3: Download the Nvidia Driver 390.42

For 32bit

wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/390.42/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-390.42.run

For 64 bit

wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/390.42/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.42.run

Step 4: Switch to command prompt and stop the running Graphics session

Press Ctrl+Alt+F1-F6 for switching to command prompt

For Ubuntu

sudo service lightdm stop

sudo service gdm stop

For LinuxMint

sudo mdm stop

Step 4: Give execute permissions to the installer

sudo chmod 755 NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.42.run

Step 5: Install the Nvidia 390.42 driver

sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.42.run

After successful installation reboot the system.

Uninstallation of Nvidia driver 390.42

For uninstall run the below command

sudo NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.42.run --uninstall