Can't install proprietary NVIDIA drivers

I currently have the nouveau driver running on my device, and was following the tutorial on the official Manjaro wiki to install the proprietary NVIDIA drivers. However, when I ran the command sudo mhwd -i pci video-nvidia-450xx I get the following output:

Sourcing /etc/mhwd-x86_64.conf
Has lib32 support: true
Sourcing /var/lib/mhwd/db/pci/graphic_drivers/nvidia-450xx/MHWDCONFIG
Processing classid: 0300
Sourcing /var/lib/mhwd/scripts/include/0300
Processing classid: 0302
:: Synchronizing package databases...
warning: nvidia-450xx-utils-450.66-1 is up to date -- skipping
warning: lib32-nvidia-450xx-utils-450.66-1 is up to date -- skipping
error: target not found: linux56-nvidia-450xx
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
 multilib is up to date
 sublime-text is up to date
Error: pacman failed!
Error: script failed!

Any help with this issue would be greatly appreciated.

Please reboot in either 5.4 kernel as is LTS, or in 5.8 kernel and remove the 5.6 kernel as is EOL. Then try again the drivers install procedure.

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This fixed it, thanks a lot!

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