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I am currently using the Nvidia 319 drivers provided by Ubuntu repos, but I want to use the 331 driver. The problem is the Xorg Edgers ppa I used to rely on offers a broken 331 driver (installs bumblebee, blacklisting the nvidia driver).

I downloaded the driver provided by the website geforce.com for my NVidia GTX 760 as a .run file, but I don't know if the procedure I'm thinking about is correct:

  1. Command line boot
  2. sudo apt-get purge nvidia*
  3. sudo ./driver.run

Is this procedure correct?

Zanna
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    Visit here:http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Install-the-Latest-NVIDIA-331-20-Drivers-in-Ubuntu-13-10-399182.shtml and scroll down to the second method. – vivid_vibe Jan 13 '14 at 16:40

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First you have to switch to non graphical tty suppose tty1 ctrl+alt+F1

login with username and password

stop lightdm: 

sudo stop lightdm

remove the old nvidia driver 

sudo apt-get purge ^nvidia

Give execute permission to the .run file driver 

sudo chmod +x driver.run

Now run the script 

sudo ./driver.run

then reboot and the system should now be using the new driver

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