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I am having trouble with ubuntu 22.04.4 freezing all the time. I tried to install a driver for nvidia video card, it downloaded OK but will not install, here is the following errors.

rod@rod:~/Downloads$ ls -la
total 165008
drwxr-xr-x  2 rod rod      4096 Apr 18 13:57 .
drwxr-x--- 18 rod rod      4096 Apr 15 18:57 ..
-rw-rw-r--  1 rod rod 168953614 Apr 18 13:57 NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28.run
rod@rod:~/Downloads$ sudo apt-get install NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28.run
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28.run
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28.run'
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28.run'
Silverstock
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Rodney Jackson
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I would strongly recommend either installing it from the official repos:

sudo apt install nvidia-driver-###

or at worst one of the PPAs like https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

I've heard horror stories of using the website download. Haven't done that personally in a long, long time.

Lunarcloud
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The Nvidia driver installer has nothing to do with apt package manager.So what you need to do is to run it directly:

chmod +x ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28.run
sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28.run

Seems that you are new to ubuntu, check this post to learn about how to install nvidia drivers with *.run files.

creeper12356
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sorry for such a long delay, I tried all the suggestions here but nothing good happened, unfortunately. I finally bit the bullet and reinstalled Ubuntu 22.04, nothing good happened by doing that either, all I got was a screen that seemed divided, it used the top left quarter only which shuddered every-time I moved the mouse. This caused me a great headache so I went back to 18.04lts and everything looked good. So I used that until I get back from a nervous breakdown, calm to a murderous rage, put away the axe, then unlock the computer. Thank you all for your help, much appreciated.

Rodney Jackson
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