Failed to install nvidia-driver in Debian 12.5

Graphics / Linux Linux
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I installed Debian 12.5 Bookworm.
I ran “apt-get update”
I ran “apt-get install nvidia-detect”
I ran “nvidia-detect” and it said my GM107 (Quadro K2200) is supported by all drivers, and recommended to install nvidia-driver
I ran “apt-get install nvidia-driver” and got the following error messages:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
nvidia-driver : PreDepends: nvidia-installer-cleanup but it is not installable
PreDepends: nvidia-legacy-check (>= 495) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: nvidia-driver-libs (= 535.183.01-1~deb12u1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: nvidia-driver-bin (= 535.183.01-1~deb12u1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: xserver-xorg-video-nvidia (= 535.183.01-1~deb12u1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: nvidia-vdpau-driver (= 535.183.01-1~deb12u1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: nvidia-alternative (= 535.183.01-1~deb12u1)
Depends: nvidia-kernel-dkms (= 535.183.01-1~deb12u1) but it is not going to be installed or
nvidia-kernel-535.183.01 or
nvidia-open-kernel-535.183.01 but it is not installable
Depends: nvidia-support but it is not installable
Recommends: nvidia-settings (>= 535) but it is not installable
Recommends: libnvidia-cfg1 (= 535.183.01-1~deb12u1) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: nvidia-persistenced (>= 535) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I looked at the NVidia downloads page. It recommended the 525 and 550 drivers. I was unable to compile them because the path names in the “include” statements no longer work. I think the files it’s looking for are in different places now. I created soft links to a newly-created directory with the name it was looking for, eventually eliminating all the “not found” error messages. Then compiling both drivers failed with inscrutable errors such as “wrong number of arguments.”

The default driver installed by the Debian installer is nouveau, but it was not nearly as good as the NVidia driver when I was running Debian 10.

What should I do next? I’m not really excited about booting Debian 10 (which I was careful not to erase when I installed Debian 12.5).

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Looks like you need to add sections of the repos. In the app “Software & Updates” , select contrib, non-free, and non-free-firmware. Or append the sections to the end of your repository lines in your/etc/apt/sources.list. Then do a sudo apt update