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I'm trying to install the latest and stable proprietary Nvidia drivers for my newly built Skylake PC. It is running on Ubuntu 15.10. My VGA card id Nvidia GTX 660.

First I tried installing the drivers using sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

It's installing a legacy driver 304.128 but not the latest one. Then I purged all the nividia packages sudo apt-get purge nvidia-* and tried installing sudo apt-get install nvidia-355

When installing the drivers 355 the installation is giving me some errors about corrupted packages and the whole system crashes thus I couldn't get the error details as well.

So what I'm doing wrong here? Do I have to install it as a module to kernel as specified here? And why the current driver is a legacy driver (304.128)

Note: I haven't add any ppa, just went with the drivers that came with the distro.

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https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa add this ppa and install 355 and then reboot, you will need modprobe if you need to do CUDA or opencl.

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