Envy Installer

Treeoflife · Post by **Treeoflife** » 03 Mar 2008, 13:48

Hi I Posted A Topic A Couple Of Days Ago, I Am Trying To Install Nvidia Drivers On My Ubuntu Ultimate Gamers Edition, When I Try To Run The Envy Package With Gdebi, I Get An Error. Please Help

DAE_JA_VOO · Post by **DAE_JA_VOO** » 03 Mar 2008, 13:51

What kind of package is it? .deb?

Treeoflife · Post by **Treeoflife** » 04 Mar 2008, 11:54

ya its .deb

DAE_JA_VOO · Post by **DAE_JA_VOO** » 04 Mar 2008, 11:57

Then just double click it

DarkRanger · Post by **DarkRanger** » 04 Mar 2008, 16:06

ett, when I double click .deb files it gives me an error about some or other argument not being correct.

DAE_JA_VOO · Post by **DAE_JA_VOO** » 04 Mar 2008, 16:23

Like a file that it needs or something? Just search for that file in Synaptic

Treeoflife · Post by **Treeoflife** » 06 Mar 2008, 21:05

i downloaded an nvidia driver from treir page and when i run it i get: error nvidia installer must be run as root

WAJeff · Post by **WAJeff** » 06 Mar 2008, 21:10

DarkRanger wrote:ett, when I double click .deb files it gives me an error about some or other argument not being correct.

Try this

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sudo apt get-install build-essential
sudo apt get update

Treeoflife wrote:i downloaded an nvidia driver from treir page and when i run it i get: error nvidia installer must be run as root

Then run is as root, you can do this by the cmd sudo
First things first, go change the root password. Once thats done go into terminal, type in the

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su

then the root password and install it like that

Otherwise, easier options to get your drivers working is to simply enable them in Restricted Drivers Management, or use Envy

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sudo apt-get install envy

Treeoflife · Post by **Treeoflife** » 06 Mar 2008, 21:15

dude i havent got envy or restricted drivers manager

Treeoflife · Post by **Treeoflife** » 06 Mar 2008, 21:16

ps: 4give my spelling

WAJeff · Post by **WAJeff** » 06 Mar 2008, 21:19

Treeoflife wrote:dude i havent got envy or restricted drivers manager

What distro are you using?

Treeoflife wrote:ps: 4give my spelling

No problem

Vampyre_2099 · Post by **Vampyre_2099** » 07 Mar 2008, 11:02

Treeoflife wrote:dude i havent got envy or restricted drivers manager

Then do this

g0ldback wrote:
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sudo apt-get install envy

Treeoflife wrote:i downloaded an nvidia driver from treir page and when i run it i get: error nvidia installer must be run as root

Installing the drivers from the NVidia site is no easy task. you need to make sure you have the linux-restriced-modules-generic .debs that correspond to your kernel. Those you can get from Synaptic. Then you need to go into a terminal and run init 3. Then you need to login in as root and change dir to where you downloaded the driver file to. Then you need to run "sh Nvidia-xxx.run". (Where xxx is the rest of the file name, press tab to complete the file name for you).

All in all, its not worth it to try and get the drivers from the NVidia site as the compilation and everything else really outweighs the need for the latest driver. Rather install envy or use "restricted driver manager"