"nvidia-installer" downloads wrong version

Graphics / Linux Linux
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When I run “nvidia-installer --latest” or “nvidia-installer --update”, it returns the following:

Currently installed version: 355.11; latest available version: 352.55;     
  latest driver file:
  ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/352.55/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64- 
  352.55.run.

I have installed the current official release, but It seems that the app is checking the current long-lived branch release instead.

Is there any way to fix it?

2

Where did you get your “nvidia-installer” binary? I’m not aware of such an application from NVIDIA. If that’s a distro tool you’ll have to talk to your distro developers.

3

Hi.

I don’t have installed any package containing the word “nvidia” on my OS (Mageia, by the way), my proprietary driver comes from the official site (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-355.11.run).

I wasn’t aware of this application neither, but today I found it when writing “nvidia + TAB” from the terminal.

4

The --latest option and the latest.txt file it pulls its information from actually predates the long-lived / short-lived branch distinction. I maintain a slightly more flexible information file at [url]http://people.freedesktop.org/~aplattner/nvidia-versions[/url], but it’s unofficial and nvidia-installer doesn’t look at it to implement its --latest feature.

We discussed trying to beef up the driver update code in nvidia-installer, but honestly you’re probably better off using your Linux distribution’s driver packages instead.

To answer the other questions, nvidia-installer is extracted from the .run file and invoked to actually install the package, and it installs itself to /usr/bin. It implements the uninstaller and you can also invoke it with the --latest option to (supposedly) upgrade to the latest release. Its source code is available on GitHub.

5

Thanks for your detailed answer, aplattner.

Unfortunately my distro packages aren’t updated to the last version, and because of that I was very interested as soon as I found “nvidia-installer --update”.

It’s a shame that there isn’t a way to point the updater to the current official release.