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Upgrade NVIDIA Web Driver over SSH / with just command line
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This is useful when you have no display output, only SSH.

Get the latest driver URL from https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/324195-nvidia-web-driver-updates-for-macos-high-sierra-update-december-7-2018/

macos:~ at$ curl -JLO https://images.nvidia.com/mac/pkg/387/WebDriver-387.10.10.10.40.113.pkg
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 60.9M  100 60.9M    0     0  1983k      0  0:00:31  0:00:31 --:--:-- 2021k

macos:~ at$ sudo installer -pkg WebDriver-387.10.10.10.40.113.pkg -target /
Password:
installer: Package name is NVIDIA Web Driver 387.10.10.10.40.113
installer: Upgrading at base path /
installer: The upgrade was successful.
installer: The install requires restarting now.

macos:~ at$ sudo shutdown -r now
Shutdown NOW!

*** FINAL System shutdown message from [email protected] ***
System going down IMMEDIATELY
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