Nvidia Corporation regularly release a new update for their product's driver including supporting for popular open source operating system which is the Ubuntu.
The question that usually comes into a new Ubuntu user's mind is how they gonna install it in Ubuntu/Linux environment?
Today we will learn a basic Ubuntu command for installing nvidia graphic driver.
First : Open the Ubuntu Terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T)
Second : Enter following command in the terminal.
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current
After all the installing process done successfully, your can restart your system to make the driver runs properly.
Note : After you successfully restart your system, you can check your graphic card driver information using following command.
glxinfo | grep OpenGL
If you having an issue regarding to the Ubuntu system after installing those nvidia driver, please run following commands.
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-3.5.0-17-generic
sudo apt-get remove nvidia-current
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current
