Linux mint 19 nvidia graphics driver can't install?

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Linux mint 19 nvidia graphics driver can't install?

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Hello everyone! I am new here. The thing that is bugging me is that my graphic card seems like is not compatible with Linux mint, I can't install the graphics card driver, neither from terminal nor from software manager. computer gets stuck and then reboot itself. I am using linux mint 19 and I have nvidia GTX-950 graphcis card. I have reinstall OS couple of times. Please help. :cry:
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Re: Linux mint 19 nvidia graphics driver can't install?

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Hello UmarCGA and Welcome to Linux Mint,
According to Nvidia your card is supported with the 352.41 driver. and should be able to install it via the driver manager found under administration in the menu.
or you can install it via the synaptic package manager. Should work ok.
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Re: Linux mint 19 nvidia graphics driver can't install?

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I have tried it. It's not working! if I try to install it it gets stuck and reboot it self. I have tried to open synaptic package manager, this is what it say.

E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

Help

By the way I have checked the same hard drive on windows it works fine
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Re: Linux mint 19 nvidia graphics driver can't install?

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did you do what synaptic told you to do.
in a terminal type

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sudo dpkg --configure -a
see if it installs the broken package. something interrupted the install before.
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Re: Linux mint 19 nvidia graphics driver can't install?

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Yes! indeed I did. In the process it get stuck and reboot itself, the computer.
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Re: Linux mint 19 nvidia graphics driver can't install?

Post by Byke »

So you didn't solve your problem yet, right? For one of my friends, his trouble installing nvidia graphics with the driver manager was because he had Secure Boot "On" on his BIOS settings. He turned it off and his graphics card started working correctly. It was a 1060, though, not from your series.
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