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[p]i installed ubuntu 8.04 two weeks ago a yesterday i wanted to install driver for my graphics card[/p] [p]i opened the terminal(for the second time) and wrote this:[/p] [p]sudo bash[i]password[/i][/p] [p]cd [i]directory where i downloaded the .run file[/i][/p] [p]sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.12-pkg1.run[/p] [p]the terminal wrote that i don't have permission or what to open that file[/p] [p]my hardware:[/p] AMD Athlon XP 1800+; NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500; 1GB+256MB RAM; 25.4GB free space on ubuntu partition [p]can somebody tell me what to do whit it please?[/p]

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I have found that some of the newer Linux distributions are including fairly recent nVidia drivers with their package systems. If so, then your package manager software (apt, yum, rpm, et al) will do the grunt work of the installation for you. I don't know about 8.04, but RHEL/CentOS does provide an nVidia driver accessible via the yum package manager. If you want a more recent one though, you will have to do the manual installation yourself.

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