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I am trying to install the drivers for my Graphic Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050Ti

To see the recommended drivers I am using the command:

ubuntu-drivers devices

But the command does not display anything

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  • Software & Updates > Additional Drivers –  May 14 '19 at 06:08
  • Try `sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall` – Novice May 14 '19 at 06:11
  • Software & Updates > Additional Drivers: No additional drivers available – Dau May 14 '19 at 06:31
  • Try ```sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall```: No drivers found for automatic installation. – Dau May 14 '19 at 06:33
  • Did you check this out already? https://askubuntu.com/questions/61396/how-do-i-install-the-nvidia-drivers – Novice May 14 '19 at 06:43
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    2 possibly dumb questions: 1. Do you have an active internet connection? and 2. Have you already installed updates, other software or at least run `sudo apt update`? –  May 14 '19 at 07:17
  • You have two options: If you use ubuntu 20.04 , then simply run ```sudo apt install nvidia-driver-440```.If not , download the recommended 440 driver for your GPU [here](https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/160175/en-us) the run the following commands : ```chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.100.run ; sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.100.run``` – Parsa Mousavi Jul 08 '20 at 07:07
  • May possibly be due to over-enthusiastic security lockdown not letting drivers be listed? – DragonLord Oct 31 '20 at 19:38

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I had the same problem. Software & Updates > Ubuntu software > check 'Proprietary drivers for devices' option. Then update from gui or sudo apt update

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    any CLI solution? I am running Ubuntu on WSL – pcko1 Dec 05 '20 at 00:03
  • Regarding WSL, I've tried it using `sudo apt install nvidia-driver-455` to update via CLI, but still. had no luck. I had to revert to dual booting to Ubuntu. – ShermanL Dec 22 '20 at 02:32
  • For WSL, there is a completely differ approach. WSL, being hosted under windows, uses the windows driver. CUDA can be set up to work in WSL using [this tutorial](https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/enabling-gpu-acceleration-on-ubuntu-on-wsl2-with-the-nvidia-cuda-platform#1-overview) on the Ubuntu website. – Paidoo Jan 30 '23 at 14:00
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This is an old question, but the most likely cause is that you don't have the restricted repository enabled in your /etc/apt/sources.list. All the proprietary drivers are there.

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