Install NVIDIA drivers on KDE Neon

I have just installed KDE Neon on my Dell Precision 5760 and I want to install the NVIDIA drivers

I was using Manjaro and this had a graphical way of installing and choosing the drivers but I can’t find a equivalent one in KDE NEON

This may be of use:
sudo lshw -c video
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: GA104GLM [RTX A3000 Mobile]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
logical name: /dev/fb0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom fb
configuration: depth=32 driver=nouveau latency=0 mode=1920x1200 visual=truecolor xres=1920 yres=1200
resources: iomemory:600-5ff iomemory:620-61f irq:172 memory:a9000000-a9ffffff memory:6000000000-61ffffffff memory:6200000000-6201ffffff ioport:3000(size=128) memory:aa080000-aa0fffff
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Intel Corporation
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
logical name: /dev/fb0
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pciexpress msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom fb
configuration: depth=32 driver=i915 latency=0 resolution=1920,1200
resources: iomemory:620-61f iomemory:400-3ff irq:173 memory:628c000000-628cffffff memory:4000000000-400fffffff ioport:4000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff memory:4010000000-4016ffffff memory:4020000000-40ffffffff

What is the KDE Neon suggested way?

Thanks, Ian

The quickest and most readily available method is to use the ubuntu-drivers utility.

KDE does not have a tool for managing drivers, though individual distros do., as you saw.

Neon isn’t an actual full-on distro, BUT you can also install Kubuntu/Lubuntu’s GUI utility software-properties-qt. This will add the Software Sources tool to Discover’s settings, which also includes the Driver Manager.

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You can also use “software-properties-qt” as graphical interface to install drivers.

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Thanks @claydoh ubuntu-drivers worked perfectly.