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Ubuntu finally retried the legacy NVIDIA driver 470 for all current Ubuntu releases! Here’s how to manually install it back for those who run Ubuntu on GeForce GT 710\/730\/780 etc Kepler GPUs (GeForce 700, 600, TITAN, and Tesla series).<\/b><\/p>\n
Ubuntu announced the end of life of NVIDIA 470 driver<\/a> support a few months ago. For Ubuntu 26.04, the legacy driver package is excluded in system repository. While, Ubuntu 24.04 and 22.04 have migrated the package to NVIDIA 535.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The legacy nvidia 470 driver package in launchpad build farm<\/p><\/div>\n In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to install NVIDIA 470 driver in two ways:<\/p>\n The legacy 470 driver needs to patch<\/b> for being able to build on 6.14 and newer Linux Kernels (see this bug report<\/a>). That’s possibly why Ubuntu decided to discontinue this driver support.<\/p>\n For Ubuntu 22.04 with default Kernel 6.8, it’s totally OK to downgrade to the previous build that will install the real 470 driver, but there’ll be no future updates for security fixes.<\/p>\n Ubuntu 24.04 may also downgrade the driver package, but it also requires to downgrade the kernel to be earlier than 6.14 due to missing patches.<\/p>\n For newer Kernels (6.14 and later), there’s a community maintain project that contains the patches to make NVIDIA-provided 470 driver build on Debian\/Ubuntu based distributions, though it’s unofficial!<\/p>\n As mentioned, the latest build of NVIDIA 470 driver in Ubuntu 24.04 and 22.04 repository acts as a wrapper that will automatically download and install NVIDIA 535 driver. Thankfully, the previous build is still available and you can choose to downgrade to that build.<\/p>\n 1. Uninstall NVIDIA 535<\/b><\/p>\n If you have already installed the latest nvidia 470 package update, then you have the 535 driver auto-installed on your system.<\/p>\n To uninstall it, press For choice, you may replace number 470 in command to uninstall other driver series, e.g., 580, 595. When done, restart computer to apply change.<\/p>\n 2. Downgrade Kernel (for Ubuntu 24.04 only)<\/b><\/p>\n For Ubuntu 24.04, run command in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) to install the original 6.8 Kernel:<\/p>\n or replace After that, restart computer and choose the 6.8 or 6.11 kernel (depends on which you installed) from “Advanced Options for Ubuntu<\/i>” sub-menu in Grub boot-loader.<\/p>\n Finally, remove newer kernels, or it will try to build the models for these kernels when installing nvidia-470 causing errors.<\/p>\n 3. Add rule to block the latest build that auto-install NVIDIA 535.<\/b><\/p>\n As you see via the screenshot above, the latest nvidia 470 driver update (wrapper of 535) is available in the “Updates” channel, while the previous build is in “Security” channel. To prevent auto-install nvidia 535, we need to add a rule to block the one from “Updates”.<\/p>\n To do so, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run the command below to create & edit an apt rule:<\/p>\n When file opens (in terminal), add the lines below to prevent installing any nvidia 470 related packages through the “updates” channel:<\/p>\n For Ubuntu 22.04, replace 4. Reinstall nvidia 470 driver<\/b>.<\/p>\n Now, run the command to refresh apt repository caches:<\/p>\n And, run command below to show 470 driver package status:<\/p>\n If everything goes well, you’ll see that the previous build is available as candidate.<\/p>\n Finally, run the commands below to install kernel headers (required for building kernel models) and 470 driver:<\/p>\n And, restart computer to apply change if everything goes well without errors.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/nvidia470-eof-700x435.webp\")
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Downsides<\/h3>\n
Option 1: Downgrade to the previous build of Ubuntu-provided 470 driver.<\/h3>\n
Ctrl+Alt+T<\/code> to open terminal, and run command:<\/p>\nsudo apt --purge remove '*nvidia*470*' '*nvidia*535*'<\/pre>\n
sudo apt install linux-image-generic linux-headers-generic<\/pre>\n
linux-image-generic<\/code> with linux-image-6.11.0-29-generic<\/code> to install the 6.11 Kernel.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/apt-611noble-700x528.webp\")
<\/p>\nsudo apt remove --autoremove linux-image-6.14.0-* linux-headers-6.14.0-* linux-image-6.17.0-* linux-headers-6.17.0-*<\/pre>\n
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<\/p>\nsudo nano \/etc\/apt\/preferences.d\/nvidia470<\/pre>\n
Package: *nvidia*470*\r\nPin: release a=noble-updates\r\nPin-Priority: -1<\/pre>\n
noble<\/code> with jammy<\/b>. Then, press Ctrl+S to save, and Ctrl+X to exit.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/prevent-nvidia535-700x508.webp\")
<\/p>\nsudo apt update<\/pre>\n
apt policy nvidia-driver-470<\/pre>\n
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<\/p>\nsudo apt install linux-headers-$(uname -r)<\/pre>\n
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-470<\/pre>\n
Option 2: Install NVIDIA-provided driver with community patches.<\/h3>\n
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