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Earth_Studio

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Registered: 2024-01-13

Posts: 2

How to install Nvidia Driver from its website's installer?

Due to some very special reason, I have to install driver from its website's installer. But I have no idea to figure out how to make it works at all! Can somebody helps me???

Earth_Studio

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Registered: 2024-01-13

Posts: 2

Re: How to install Nvidia Driver from its website's installer?

here's driver link:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/156163/

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 14,960

Re: How to install Nvidia Driver from its website's installer?

Please don't, it will cause issues and make updating much harder .

Due to some very special reason, I have to install driver from its website's installer.

There may be  a better solution, please tell us why you need it.

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seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 75,153

Re: How to install Nvidia Driver from its website's installer?

There may be is  a better solution, please tell us why you need it.

ftfy, from the linked driver, it's https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0&K=340xx

@Earth_Studio, please make sure to read https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Nvidia

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