HOWTO: Install the NVIDIA driver on ANY stable version of Ubuntu

[tseliot]

If you want to install the Nvidia driver Nvidia in Ubuntu you can follow one of this guides (according to the release of Ubuntu which you are using):

NOTE: if you have no idea of which version of Ubuntu you are using, type:

cat /etc/lsb-release

which will give you something like this:

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=6.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=edgy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 6.10"

• Guide for Ubuntu Feisty 7.04:
  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2587126

• Guide for Ubuntu Edgy 6.10:
  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=281823

• Guide for Ubuntu Dapper 6.06:
  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=139264

• Guide for Ubuntu Breezy 5.10:
  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=75074

Another way to install the latest version of the Nvidia driver is that of using my script "Envy":
http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html

NOTE: Envy is not supported by Ubuntu in any way and you should use it at your risk.