How To Install The Nvidia 337.19 Drivers On Ubuntu 14.04

This tutorial is going to show you how to install the latest version of nVidia Driver 337.19 on Ubuntu 14.04. This nVidia driver 337.19 is still in Beta version so do it at your own risk. Installing nVidia Driver 337.19 on Ubuntu 14.04 is pretty easy.

First, download the nVidia Driver 337.19 binary package for Linux

For 32 bit system

wget us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/337.19/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-337.19.run

For 64 bit

wget us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/337.19/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-337.19.run

Now make the installer executable

sudo chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-*-337.19.run

Next we need to kill or stop the display manager. Do the one of following command depends on which display manager you are running.

For KDE

sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop

For Gnome

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop

Now install the package using command

sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-*-337.19.run

Follow on screen installation wizard until finished.