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## Introduction

NVIDIA^®^ is one of the most popular GPU manufacturers. You can install NVIDIA GPU drivers in more than one way. This guide uses NVIDIA's official repository to install their drivers. Therefore, [NVIDIA's installation guide](https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/pdf/CUDA_Installation_Guide_Linux.pdf) is heavily referenced here.

!!! Note

The link for pre-installation actions in NVIDIA's official guide is broken. To install the NVIDIA driver, you must install the necessary utilities and dependencies from their official repository.
NVIDIA^®^ is one of the most popular GPU manufacturers. You can install NVIDIA GPU drivers in more than one way. This guide uses NVIDIA's official repository to install their drivers. Therefore, [NVIDIA Driver Installation Guide](https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/tesla/driver-installation-guide/index.html) is heavily referenced here.

Some other alternative ways to install NVIDIA drivers include:

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The `kernel-devel` package provides the necessary headers and tools to build kernel modules:

```bash
sudo dnf install kernel-devel -y
```

Dynamic Kernel Module Support (DKMS) is a program used to rebuild kernel modules automatically:

```bash
sudo dnf install dkms -y
sudo dnf install kernel-devel-matched kernel-headers -y
```

## Install NVIDIA drivers
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Add the official NVIDIA repository with the following command:

!!! Note
```bash
sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/rhel10/$(uname -i)/cuda-rhel10.repo
```

If you use Rocky 8, replace `rhel9` in the file path with `rhel8`.
Next, clean DNF repository cache:

```bash
sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/rhel9/$(uname -i)/cuda-rhel9.repo
sudo dnf clean expire-cache
```

Next, install a set of packages necessary for building and installing kernel modules:
Finally, install the latest NVIDIA driver for your system. For open kernel modules, run:

```bash
sudo dnf install kernel-headers-$(uname -r) kernel-devel-$(uname -r) tar bzip2 make automake gcc gcc-c++ pciutils elfutils-libelf-devel libglvnd-opengl libglvnd-glx libglvnd-devel acpid pkgconf dkms -y
sudo dnf install nvidia-open -y
```

Install the latest NVIDIA driver module for your system:
While for proprietary kernel modules, run:

```bash
sudo dnf module install nvidia-driver:latest-dkms -y
sudo dnf install cuda-drivers -y
```

## Disable Nouveau
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