Can't activate proprietary driver for NVIDIA from "Additional drivers" Ubuntu 14.04

nvidia 14.04 proprietary

Solution 1:

You can run this action from command line, using utility ubuntu-drivers. In this case you will get some helpful descriptions of error. To install the most appropriate version use ubuntu-drivers autoinstall

Solution 2:

Under "Ubuntu Software" in the Software & Updates page set the Download From to be "Main Server"

This then lets you install the drivers...

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You can then Install the Drivers for the Nvidia

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