Nvidia Driver Installation Guide for Fedora

Installing Nvidia Driver

1. Before Installing the Nvidia Driver

The guide assumes that you have not enabled secure boot in the computer. Otherwise, you will need to type in the password for secure boot to sign the driver. Also, make sure to check the system information and update all the packages in the OS.

Step 1: Install all system updates

sudo dnf upgrade

Step 2: Check system info, such as CPU, GPU

neowofetch

2. Installing Nvidia Driver

Step 1: Install akmod tools

sudo dnf install kmodtool akmods mokutil openssl

Step 2: Verify whether RPM fusion is enabled

dnf repolist | grep rmpfusion

Expected response: rpmfusion-free & rpmfusion-nonfree listed

In case of RPM fusion not listed, install it with the below command

sudo dnf install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

After installing RPM Fusion, update repo metadata with the following command

sudo dnf makecache

Step 3: Installing Nvidia Driver and Cuda

sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda

Step 4: Reboot/Restart the PC

Step 5: Type Nvidia in the search bar and verify whether the installation is successful

Conclusion

Unless you have specific uses, just buy an AMD GPU if you want to run Linux without hassle.