SystemError: installArchives() failed

[Cleveland Rock]

When I try to activate "NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version 195)" in Hardware Drivers, I get the error message "SystemError: installArchives() failed". I'm kind of a n00b with Ubuntu, so I don't know what other information to give you. Any ideas?

clevelandrock@Centurion:~$ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G96 [GeForce 9500 GT] (rev a1)

[Cleveland Rock]

Bump.

[Cleveland Rock]

Pretty please?

[Cleveland Rock]

Pretty please with sugar on top?

[xhalarin]

I had a similar problem with the nvidia 185 driver today. It was caused by messing around with the files driver manually. I managed to resolve the issue by using the jockey-text command from the command line.

If you go to a terminal window and type this:
jockey-text -l

You can see all of the proprietary drivers that are installed and whether they are enabled or disabled.

Run this to refresh your jockey database:
jockey-text -u -c

Then try this:
jockey-text -e xorg:nvidia-195
(replace xorg:nvidia-195 with whatever the first part of the driver name is when you used the -l parameter if it's different)

If this doesn't fix you up, I thought this thread had some good information for other commands to look at:
http://art.ubuntuforums.org/showthre...1115079&page=2

Good luck.

[calande]

Thanks! This solved my problem
I suspect also another instance of Synaptic running caused it.

[tommywalsh]

I just wanted to drop in and second this. I had the same problem, same error message. Same error message even when using jockey-text. It was definitely a problem with Synaptic running. Closing Synaptic solved the problem.

Thanks!
Tom

[John Hollar]

I would also like to mention that I am pants-on-head-retarded and attempted to install my nvidia drivers with Synaptic running. Oops!

[Rathalos]

pants-on-head-retarded

Yes. Same problem, same fix for me.

[im_riley]

I just wanted to drop in and second this. I had the same problem, same error message. Same error message even when using jockey-text. It was definitely a problem with Synaptic running. Closing Synaptic solved the problem.

This worked for me as well. Thanks.