Install and uninstall NVIDIA driver in ubuntu

 

Install NVIDIA Driver

 

First you need to install the linux kernel headers:

 

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic

 

Then you will need to run dkms to remove the old nvidia kernel module:

 

sudo dkms remove nvidia

 

Then run:

 

sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

 

this should make it install correctly, so all you need to do is run

 

sudo nvidia-xconfig 

 

and reboot the system.

 

If you get an error about the module version, run: 

 

sudo dkms build nvidia

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Uninstall NVIDIA Driver

 

To uninstall NVIDIA driver run the following command

 

apt-get remove --purge nvidia-current

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