My graphics card is a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. I am unable to install the proprietary Nvidia drivers through the "Software and Updates" program.
When I try installing it through the command line (sudo apt install nvidia-driver-440 or sudo ubuntu-drivers autoupdate) I get the following message telling me of dependencies that "are not going to be installed." Below is that message:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
nvidia-driver-440 : Depends: nvidia-dkms-440 (= 440.48.02-0ubuntu0~~18.04.1) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libnvidia-decode-440:i386 (= 440.48.02-0ubuntu0~~18.04.1)
Recommends: libnvidia-encode-440:i386 (= 440.48.02-0ubuntu0~~18.04.1)
Recommends: libnvidia-ifr1-440:i386 (= 440.48.02-0ubuntu0~~18.04.1)
Recommends: libnvidia-fbc1-440:i386 (= 440.48.02-0ubuntu0~~18.04.1)
Recommends: libnvidia-gl-440:i386 (= 440.48.02-0ubuntu0~~18.04.1)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
I have tried fixing the broken package (sudo apt install -f nvidia-dkms-440), but that package has it's own dependency that "is not going to be installed":
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
nvidia-dkms-440 : Depends: dkms but it is not going to be installed
That's when I went back to the dependency in the first message and read it more closely:
Depends: nvidia-dkms-440 (= 440.48.02-0ubuntu0~~18.04.1) but it is not going to be installed
Does this mean that the dependency will only work with Ubuntu 18.04.1? I have Ubuntu 18.04.3. Do I have to reinstall Ubuntu to a slightly previous version to get these dependencies to work or is there something else I should try? Thanks!