How to check Nvidia drivers on Ubuntu?

2 years ago
William Carter
1 minute

You can view NVIDIA drivers on Ubuntu by following these steps:

  1. To open the terminal, you can use the shortcut key Ctrl+Alt+T.
  2. Type the following command to check the current version of NVIDIA drivers installed on the system:
  3. Check the Nvidia System Management Interface
  4. If the NVIDIA driver is already installed in the system, it will display the driver’s version information and other related details.
  5. If the NVIDIA driver is not installed in the system, you can install it by using the following command.
  6. Install the Nvidia driver version using sudo apt.
  7. is the driver version you want to install, it can be either the latest version or a specific version.
  8. After installation is complete, restart the system.
  9. Run the nvidia-smi command again to confirm that the driver has been successfully installed.

Please note that installing NVIDIA drivers may take some time, depending on your network situation and system hardware configuration.

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