Painless installation of NVIDIA drivers on Ubuntu 18.04/20.04

nvidia_drivers_installation_on_ubuntu

# blacklist noveau drivers  
sudo bash -c "echo blacklist nouveau > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia-nouveau.conf"
sudo bash -c "echo options nouveau modeset=0 >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia-nouveau.conf"

# confirm that the changes were correctly applied
cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia-nouveau.conf
# prints:
# blacklist nouveau
# options nouveau modeset=0

# reboot
sudo reboot

# update apt
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install -y libdvd-pkg
sudo dpkg-reconfigure libdvd-pkg

# select the nvidia-driver version
sudo apt-cache search nvidia-driver | grep "driver metapackage"
# prints:
# nvidia-driver-390 - NVIDIA driver metapackage
# nvidia-driver-460 - NVIDIA driver metapackage
# nvidia-driver-470 - NVIDIA driver metapackage
# nvidia-driver-510 - NVIDIA driver metapackage

# install
VERSION=510
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-$VERSION

# reboot
sudo reboot

# confirm that installation was successful
nvidia-smi