Unable to install any nVidia driver at all, GUI and CLI drop same error

[Krezzin]

No matter which driver version you attempt to install, either via GUI or CLI, its the same error every single time. This has been the most confusing driver updating process of any Linux distro I used (Mint, Xubuntu and now Kubuntu - my 3rd distro).

Why it so hard to do this...

[claydoh]

fwiw, Mint, Xubuntu and kubuntu 24.04 are the same exact OS under the GUI, so the exact same driver packages from the same exact repository. Xubunbtu and Kubuntu even use the exact same driver manager. This error would happen for the same reason on all three.

so:

$ apt policy nvidia-kernel-common-570
nvidia-kernel-common-570:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 570.169-0ubuntu0.24.04.1                                    <-----------------------------------------------this is what it needs to install
  Version table:
    570.169-0ubuntu0.24.04.1 500
      500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/restricted amd64 Packages
    570.133.07-0ubuntu0.24.04.1 500                                         <-----------------------------------------------this is what apt knows about for your system
      500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security/restricted amd64 Packages

It looks like you need to check for (and install) updates first, your package database hasn't been updated, so the databse is out of sync, and from the package version I will guess this is a fresh install?

[Krezzin]

I never had issues downloading drivers on Mint with the Driver Manager, though.

Always doing sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade to make sure everything goes right before driver install, but this time, the issue is somewhere else.

And yeah, its like 2 days old install.

[claydoh]

It's an apt dependency issue. The cause for this isn't Kubuntu specific or related to the driver manager.

Any PPAs or other third party addon sources?

Run the command I did, and paste your output here. Images of text make it hard for us to copy content.

Also show the same for nvidia-driver-570

I assume there is no interesting messaging when running apt update and apt upgrade?

If your output looks like mine, try installing the package, either it works, and you can then try installing the driver, or you'll get more errors.