Ubuntu – Install all xorg-edgers updates

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I'm currently using ubuntu 13.04 and recently got a nvidia gpu. I've found that the easiest way for me to install the driver is to use the xorg-edgers ppa and it works really well.

However, I also get another bunch of updates from them including touchpad drivers, amd drivers, nouveau updates and some stuff i've not even heard of like buffer management and cirrus. Is it safe to install these updates? especially after installing the nvidia driver? I dont wana mess anything up.

If its not safe, is there a way to hide the updates?

Thank You 🙂

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As opposed to other answers to this question, the very PPA states that it should be used as a whole and NOT via individual packages (i.e. not pick individual updates, but install all of them).

== Important notice ==

This PPA is currently meant to be used as a whole. Please do not individually install packages from it, add it to your sources and let your package manager pull in every update. The packages here build against each other and compile different features based on whats available at build time. Do not assume that because it lets you install a DDX with just the driver and libdrm update that it will work. These packages are made with scripts that use the the current packages as the base, so some dependencies can be wrong and your package manager will not resolve that for you. If you want to individually install something from here, grab the source and rebuild it in your current environment instead.

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I was having the same problem, and I fixed it by running the following commands in the terminal:

sudo apt-get purge nvidia* ## remove the previously installed proprietary driver
sudo reboot
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-340

That worked for me. Let me know how it goes for you.

Ubuntu – The entire process of using xorg-edgers ppa

Now, before you go ahead, please note that one of the few vectors for getting malware onto your computer is a PPA, so never install a PPA because someone tells you so (including me). Always use your own personal judgement and do some research before installing a PPA! Having said that, a PPA with 1000s of users mentioned in numerous articles is always better then installing ppa:maffia.it/BotNet with a few 100 users! ;-)

Having said that, I've been running with the xorg-edgers ppa for more then a year now and I get automatic updates from them, so I don't worry about installing and removing the PPA (don't know where you got that notion from).

If for some or other reason you would like to hold packages, just do so.

What the warning is all about is that you should not download individual .deb files from the xorg-edgers repository as they are not designed to be used that way as the .deb files have dependencies among them and have not been tested outside of the PPA.

Installing individual .deb files is a bad idea anyway if you have other means of installing software …

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