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I want to install the latest driver for my GTX 1070 (my monitor flickers sometimes and I think this might be because I never installed a proper driver).

Since NVIDIA supports Linux driver I downloaded the latest driver for my card at https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us.

I made the file executable and stated it from terminal

sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-410.93.run

However, I can't install it. It shows me the folloing message:

The distribution-provided pre-install script failed! Are you sure you want to continue?

When I enter yes, I get the following error:

How can I fix it?

THis is the log file:

nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' creation
time: Fri Jan 25 15:49:58 2019 installer version: 410.93

PATH:
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/snap/bin

nvidia-installer command line:
./nvidia-installer

Unable to load: nvidia-installer ncurses v6 user interface

Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface
-> Detected 8 CPUs online; setting concurrency level to 8.
-> Installing NVIDIA driver version 410.93.
-> Running distribution scripts executing: '/usr/lib/nvidia/pre-install'...
-> done.
-> The distribution-provided pre-install script failed! Are you sure you want to continue? (Answer: Continue installation) ERROR: The
Nouveau kernel driver is currently in use by your system. This driver
is incompatible with the NVIDIA driver, and must be disabled before
proceeding. Please consult the NVIDIA driver README and your Linux
distribution's documentation for details on how to correctly disable
the Nouveau kernel driver.
-> For some distributions, Nouveau can be disabled by adding a file in the modprobe configuration directory. Would you like nvidia-installer
to attempt to create this modprobe file for you? (Answer: No)

I'm not sure if it matters, but I did apt-get upgrade before and haven't restarted yet.

If you want to install the nvidia driver from the repos (unfortuanatley it doesn't seem to be as easy as I wanted it to be... :( )

First remove any nvidia packages you might have had laying around

sudo apt-get purge nvidia*

Add the repository to your repo list

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers

And update

sudo apt-get update

Install the latest nvidia driver

sudo apt-get install nvidia-XXX

All steps mentioned by j-money worked, except the last one

sudo apt-get install nvidia-XXX

I went to https://www.nvidia.de/Download/index.aspx?lang=en to find out that the latest driver for my card was version 410.93. However

sudo apt-get install nvidia-410 

did not work.

Instead there is a simpler way of finding out the latest driver. Just enter

ubuntu-drivers devices

in terminal which gives the following output:

== /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 ==

modalias : pci:v000010DEd00001B81sv00001462sd00003302bc03sc00i00

vendor   : NVIDIA Corporation

model    : GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070]

driver   : nvidia-driver-410 - third-party free

driver   : nvidia-driver-396 - third-party free

driver   : nvidia-driver-415 - third-party free recommended

driver   : nvidia-driver-390 - third-party free

driver   : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin

Now one may install the latest driver with

sudo apt-get install nvidia-driver-415