Well if you use the graphics drivers ppa in bionic and were previously using a driver lower than 396 it turns out that you can no longer use just an "sudo apt install nvidia-396" to get this new driver .
first the meta package has been renamed to "nvidia-driver-396" and second it no longer prompts apt or apt-get or anything to first remove the old stuff and then install the new .
you must do it manually , first removing/purging all your current nvidia-* stuff and then install the new .
I could not figure out why I could not install it , so expressed my concerns at the graphics drivers PPA and Michael Marley (from the graphics drivers PPA) emailed me back to discuss the problem and finally we hit on the fact of what was going on IE me trying to do it the old way .
this is how I did it and it was quite painless with just a reboot and I am now on the 396 driver
just in case you were experiencing the same frustration
VINNY
first the meta package has been renamed to "nvidia-driver-396" and second it no longer prompts apt or apt-get or anything to first remove the old stuff and then install the new .
you must do it manually , first removing/purging all your current nvidia-* stuff and then install the new .
I could not figure out why I could not install it , so expressed my concerns at the graphics drivers PPA and Michael Marley (from the graphics drivers PPA) emailed me back to discuss the problem and finally we hit on the fact of what was going on IE me trying to do it the old way .
this is how I did it and it was quite painless with just a reboot and I am now on the 396 driver
Code:
sudo apt-get --purge remove nvidia* && sudo apt-get install nvidia-driver-396
VINNY
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