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    Install Latest Nvidia Driver in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Step: 1

Remove previous installation
sudo apt-get purge nvidia*
sudo apt-get autoremove 


Step: 2

Install Dependencies
sudo apt-get install build-essential gcc-7 gcc-multilib dkms


Step: 3

Blacklist for Nouveau Driver
Create a new file at /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf with the following contents-
blacklist nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0

then excute
sudo update-initramfs -u

And Restart (sudo reboot)

Step: 4

Stop gdm
sudo service gdm stop


Step: 5

Excuting the Runfile
Download latest driver from here
cd Downloads

chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-430.14.run
sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-430.14.run --dkms -s --no-cc-version-check

Note: --no-cc-version-check is for Compiler Mismatch problem


Common Problems and Solutuins

Problem 1:

ERROR:  An NVIDIA kernel module 'nvidia' appears to already be loaded in your kernel.

Solutuins:
dkms status

if the output is something like this nvidia-410, 410.78, 4.4.0-138-generic, x86_64: installed,
then we need comma seperated first three string- nvidia-410, 410.78, 4.4.0-138-generic
$ sudo dkms remove nvidia-410/410.78 -k 4.4.0-138-generic