Problem

Solution

You need to update the kernel and kernel-source packages at the same time. The NVIDIA driver package finds the matching kernel source and compiles against that.

Prerequisites:

something something gcc kernel-devel

Step-by-step CentOS 6.x

Step-by-step CentOS 7.x

Step-by-step Ubuntu 14.04

Step-by-step Ubuntu 16.04

init 3
blacklist Nouveau (separate article)
GUI issues

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