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It's astonishingly hard to find out how to install opengl headers on ubuntu. I've seen pointers to the opengl registry: http://www.opengl.org/registry/ but the files do not appear to be there.

I've also see reference that the files come in the nvidia drivers. Of course, the drivers supposedly are pre-loaded on the distribution, but perhaps not the developer tools.

If anyone on Ubuntu is listening, this is kind of a ludicrous situation. This is not wildly exotic stuff, loading the graphics libraries should be fast and easy. In fact, I might venture to suggest that these header files be included with any standard developer headers.

Anyway, I was trying to install the NVIDIA drivers with:

sudo sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-260.19.12.run

This fails because the x server is running. I want to shut down, but if I kill it, it will just restart. I tried init 1 and it didn't work. This seems more complicated than it used to be, but I'm just not used to this distribution, any hints?

Thanks!

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You have to switch system to lower runlevel. By default, X starts in runlevel 5. Follow this article: Debian and Ubuntu Linux Run Levels | Debian Admin

you can change runlevel at runtime by executing e.g.init <n> or while booting by appending the number of runlevel to the grub boot string.

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Please have a look How to correctly install an Nvidia video card to know different kind of installation.

If you are keen to use .run file.

Press alt+ctrl+F1

Execute sudo stop lightdm

Now navigate to the downloaded file directory using cd.

Run the .run file using

sudo sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-260.19.12.run

260.19.12 seems pretty old driver, have you checked what is the latest version for your card.

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