NVIDIA Driver Installation Guide (RHEL / Rocky / Alma / SLES)

1. Update the system

sudo dnf update -y
sudo reboot

sudo zypper refresh
sudo zypper update -y
sudo reboot

Reboot ensures you are running the latest kernel.

Replace rhel8 with rhel9 where appropriate.

sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo=https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/rhel8/x86_64/cuda-rhel8.repo

sudo curl -o /etc/yum.repos.d/cuda.repo https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/rhel8/x86_64/cuda-rhel8.repo

sudo zypper addrepo --refresh https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/rhel8/x86_64/ nvidia

sudo dnf makecache

sudo zypper --gpg-auto-import-keys refresh

uname -r

grubby --info=0 | grep kernel

Example:

4.18.0-553.77.1.el8_10.x86_64

dnf search kmod-nvidia | grep $(uname -r)

zypper search nvidia | grep $(uname -r)

sudo dnf module install -y nvidia-driver:580

sudo zypper install -y kmod-nvidia-<version>

sudo reboot

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sudo dnf --showduplicates list kernel

sudo dnf install kernel-<version>

zypper search -s kernel-default

sudo zypper install kernel-default-<version>

grubby --info=ALL
grubby --set-default-index=1

sudo dnf module remove -y nvidia-driver
sudo dnf module reset nvidia-driver

sudo zypper remove -y '*nvidia*'

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