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Installing NVIDIA drivers - 'sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall' gives an UnboundLocalError?

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The guide for a 60 minute old Ubuntu 22.04 system I am following is telling me, if I agree with the recommendation to run sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall. But that's giving me an error.

peter@peter-NBINF-O5-12R5N-54:~$ sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
[sudo] password for peter: 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/ubuntu-drivers", line 513, in <module>
    greet()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 1128, in __call__
    return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 1053, in main
    rv = self.invoke(ctx)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 1659, in invoke
    return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx))
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 1395, in invoke
    return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 754, in invoke
    return __callback(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/decorators.py", line 84, in new_func
    return ctx.invoke(f, obj, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 754, in invoke
    return __callback(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/bin/ubuntu-drivers", line 432, in autoinstall
    command_install(config)
  File "/usr/bin/ubuntu-drivers", line 187, in command_install
    UbuntuDrivers.detect.nvidia_desktop_pre_installation_hook(to_install)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/UbuntuDrivers/detect.py", line 839, in nvidia_desktop_pre_installation_hook
    with_nvidia_kms = version >= 470
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'version' referenced before assignment

I can see the full function if I open that file with nano:

def nvidia_desktop_pre_installation_hook(to_install):
    '''Applies changes that need to happen before installing the NVIDIA drivers'''
    with_nvidia_kms = False

    # Enable KMS if nvidia >= 470
    for package_name in to_install:
        if package_name.startswith('nvidia-driver-'):
            try:
                version = int(package_name.split('-')[-1])
            except ValueError:
                pass
            finally:
                with_nvidia_kms = version >= 470

    if with_nvidia_kms:
        set_nvidia_kms(1)

What should I do?

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jp flag

The next line of the guide already basically says work around the autoinstaller:

# Use the 'recommended' driver from the output of the earlier step, running `ubuntu-drivers devices`
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-530-open

So this is basically PEBCAK (though I don't see why the autoinstaller script can't in future make a better guess about NVIDIA KMS, whatever that is, or parse the nvidia-driver strings with a -server or -open suffix correctly, perhaps by getting the [2]-th element of the split string instead of the last element, perhaps it will in future).

For additional context, my earlier step:

peter@peter-NBINF-O5-12R5N-54:~$ ubuntu-drivers devices
== /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 ==
modalias : pci:v000010DEd000025A2sv00001D05sd00001178bc03sc00i00
vendor   : NVIDIA Corporation
model    : GA107M [GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile]
driver   : nvidia-driver-515-open - distro non-free
driver   : nvidia-driver-525 - distro non-free
driver   : nvidia-driver-525-server - distro non-free
driver   : nvidia-driver-515 - distro non-free
driver   : nvidia-driver-510 - distro non-free
driver   : nvidia-driver-530-open - distro non-free recommended
driver   : nvidia-driver-515-server - distro non-free
driver   : nvidia-driver-530 - distro non-free
driver   : nvidia-driver-525-open - distro non-free
driver   : nvidia-driver-470-server - distro non-free
driver   : nvidia-driver-470 - distro non-free
driver   : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin
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