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When I ran to Nvidia's website to download their 64bit Linux drivers, it downloaded a file named "NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-319.49.run". Since this wasn't a file extension I'd seen before, I assumed double clicking would do nothing (Incorrect; it actually tried opening it in a word processor which hilariously meets with a crashed word processor).

I installed new drivers through a terminal. For future reference, however, assuming this is an archive, and clearly Nvidia expects everyone to be able to crack it open on command, how would I go about making the .run file actually be useful? Was there a command to decompress it and install the drivers? Was it a script and I just have no idea how to execute it?

(Very new to Linux; Ubuntu's my first attempt at running a distro since ...oh, RedHat 6.something. Anyways, so much for context.)

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The way to do this is to simply make the .run file executable and run it.

chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-319.49.run

You need to kill the x-server first. Check this question for the way to kill the x server. First go to virtual terminal tty1 by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1. Then run

sudo service lightdm stop

Later run this

sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-319.49.run

This will install the driver. To restart, run this command in the same F1 terminal

sudo service lightdm start

or just restart.

I have tried to install NVidia drivers and they made my system crash badly. Hence, I advice you to avoid NVidia and stick to Nouveau (as mentioned in the comments) unless you want to test your patience and Ubuntu's sturdiness.

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