Install / Uninstall NVIDIA Driver 415.18 64bit On Ubuntu / LinuxMint systems

This tutorial will help you to install the Latest stable version of NVIDIA Graphics driver 415.18 On Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and LinuxMint. ...

This tutorial will help you to install the Latest stable version of NVIDIA Graphics driver 415.18 On Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and LinuxMint.

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 will be available for 64 bit architecture and released on 23th November 2018 with bug fixs and improvements.

What's New in Nvidia 415.18

• Fixed a bug that caused corruption on vkCmdCopyImage calls for non-2D texture targets.
• Fixed a bug that caused mode switches to fail when an SDI output board was connected.
• Fixed a bug that could cause rendering corruption in Vulkan programs.
• Added a new hook script, "pre-unload", to the nvidia-installer hook script system. This script, if present, will be executed before nvidia-installer attempts to unload existing NVIDIA kernel modules.
• Fixed a bug that caused vkGetPhysicalDeviceDisplayPropertiesKHR() to occasionally return incorrect values for physicalResolution.
• Added the synchronization state for PRIME Displays to nvidia-settings.

Installation steps

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 415.18

wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/415.18/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.18.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_64-415.18.run

Step 5: Install the Nvidia 415.18 driver

sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.18.run

After successful installation reboot the system.

Uninstallation of Nvidia driver 415.18

For uninstall run the below command

sudo NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.18.run --uninstall