FIXED* Nvidia drivers not installing correctly please help.

[bunchie]

FIXED*
(im using Ubuntu 18.04).in software and updates it says i have nvidia 390 drivers but it also says i have no proprietary drivers either. it wont let me change which driver i what either, when i try to select a different one it just switches back. in system setting under about it says my graphics are NV117 (i have a GTX 750ti) now im assuming that mean nividia drivers 117 but i could be wrong. iv tried looking up this issue and found nothing, iv tried installations but im not fully understating of what is happaing over the error of unmet dependency and no way to fix then, since when i do the sudo fix command it give me more unmet dependency.
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[lordfrikk]

Have you tried removing the old package first?

[bunchie]

with the pune command, sadly yes.

[bunchie]

i tried to pure nvidia for a fourth time and got more unmet dependencys, and this is the same errors for the other drivers i tried to install.

[Bashing-om]

bunchie; Hello -

Show us the errors by posting the outputs - Between code tags - of terminal commands:


sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

code tag tutorial:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2171721&p=12776168#post12776168

see what it takes to put the package manager in a happy state .


If the package manager is not happy




no one is happy

[bunchie]

ill just reinstall

[Bashing-om]

ill just reinstall

Ahwww yes, that nuclear solution that always works :) .. but we learn little with that option .


easy way out

[oldos2er]

ill just reinstall

And when this issue comes up again, then what? Despite the fact that it says "open source", you are using the correct drivers.

[bunchie]

it worked, the software and update finally let me pick a proprietary driver, thanks for the help and ideas tho.

[Bashing-om]

bunchie; Outstanding :)



where there us a will, there is a way