With this change there’s one less reason to. The lure of new and improved drivers is one of the reasons why many Ubuntu users chose to ride the interim releases or (in some cases) switch distro entirely. You do not need to download the Nvidia driver manually, add an unsupported PPA, or do anything else you can get the latest Nvidia drivers on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (and soon 16.04 LTS), out of the box. If all is well, it migrates to the regular -updates channel and …Well you can guess the rest.Īgain, this is a major change to how things currently work for graphics drivers on Ubuntu. The Nvidia driver update is packaged and pushed out to the -proposed updates channel.
The short clip gives an excellent overview of the changes at hand: Now the initiative is being extended to include the proprietary Nvidia driver for Linux. It’s this endeavour that keeps other apps, like Mozilla Firefox and Chromium, up to date on long-term support releases. The magic is made possible by the SRU ( Stable Release Update) initiative. Word on the street is that Ubuntu 18.04 LTS users can now install the latest releases of the proprietary Nvidia driver through the regular Ubuntu updates channel. Until now, anyone that has wanted to install Nvidia binary driver updates on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS has needed to make use of a separate PPA, futz around with random packages distributed online, or install the driver manually, by hand, the old-fashioned way. Ubuntu LTS users can now install the latest releases of the proprietary Nvidia driver through the regular Ubuntu updates channel.
Newer Nvidia graphics drivers are now available to users of Ubuntu’s Long Term Support LTS) releases, by default, no input required.
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