Introducing past nvidia-driver to Ubuntu

Disable nouveau

cd etc/modprobe.d/
touch blacklist-nouveau.conf

Write the following two lines in blacklist-nouveau.conf

blacklist nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0

Reload & Reboot

sudo update-initramfs -u
reboot

Introducing the CUDA 10.1 repository

wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu1804/x86_64/cuda-repo-ubuntu1804_10.1.105-1_amd64.deb

CUDA 10.1 repository installation

sudo apt install ./cuda-repo-ubuntu1804_10.1.105-1_amd64.deb 

Obtaining a public GPG key

Hit sudo apt-key adv --fetch-keys ... from the above command

The public CUDA GPG key does not appear to be installed.
To install the key, run this command:
sudo apt-key adv --fetch-keys http://developer.download.nvidia.com/comput

Repository app

sudo apt update

Introduction of machine learning repository

wget http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/machine-learning/repos/ubuntu1804/x86_64/nvidia-machine-learning-repo-ubuntu1804_1.0.0-1_amd64.deb

sudo apt install ./nvidia-machine-learning-repo-ubuntu1804_1.0.0-1_amd64.deb

sudo apt update

Confirmation of installable nvidia-driver

ubuntu-drivers devices

Installation of a specific nvidia-driver

sudo apt install nvidia-418