Additional drivers installation

[Bhavesh khandelwal]

Hello,
sir i have been trying to install additional drivers in ubuntu such as
nvidia graphics driver but i am not able to download
the drivers and also synaptic is not installed in the ubuntu
how can i install both of these.
PLEASE HELP

[Anay Joshi]

to install synaptic manager, use "apt-get intall synaptic". Before that, you would need to set up proxy.
Create a file "/etc/apt/apt.conf" and put the following in the it

Acquire::http::proxy “http://ldap_user:ldap_p...@netmon.iitb.ac.in:80”;
Acquire::ftp::proxy “ftp://ldap_user:ldap_p...@netmon.iitb.ac.in:80”;
Acquire::https::proxy “https://ldap_user:ldap_p...@netmon.iitb.ac.in:80”;

[Mayank Singhal]

Don't use ftp proxy.

Netmon doesn't allow ftp

Mayank Singhal

5th Year Dual Degree Student

Computer Science and Engineering

IIT Bombay

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[Mayank Meghwanshi]

i did that acquire proxy setting in apt.conf.....it used to work in ma ubuntu ....but i reinstalled ubuntu some days back and it is not working now....

is there any other place i should do the proxy setting to get it working...??

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[rahil momin]

if ur username/password contains special characters.. (i m sure they do), u need to url encode them..
http://www.degraeve.com/reference/urlencoding.php
just replace the special character in ur username/password with the correspoing code (eg. ! becomes %21)

[Bhavesh khandelwal]

when i tried to configure apt.conf file, it is not getting saved and when i tried to open it using sudo gedit/etc/apt/apt.conf
in terminal, the command said command not found.

how can i save this file

[Mayank Meghwanshi]

i have done setting for net access of apt-get in all my wingies ubuntu .....but my own lappy's ubuntu is not working... :P:P

[Mayank Meghwanshi]

 i know that doesn't work...so i tried using someone else' ldap account which has username and password only numbers...but still ts not avble to connect...

[Pratyush Nalam]

My password has special character and it works fine for me
Regards,
Pratyush Nalam
http://reflectionspn.wordpress.com

[Anay Joshi]

bhavesh, you missed a space between gedit and the file name

sudo gedit /etc/apt/apt.conf

[Bhavesh khandelwal]

i used apt get to install synaptic package manager, but its not working.
it says proxy authentication required, i sense proxy settings isnt working
what should i do to get it fixed..

[Bhavesh khandelwal]

i got proxy fixed.
but when i use additional driver to install my nvidia graphic card driver
it fails saying

Sorry, installation of this driver failed.

Please have a look at the log file for details: /var/log/jockey.log

i am including this file jockey.log
please give it a look and help me out to install the driver

[Pratyush Nalam]

nVidia supports only till 10.04 I think

Regards,
Pratyush Nalam
http://reflectionspn.wordpress.com

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Pratyush Nalam <pratyus...@gmail.com> wrote:

I think some drivers are not compatible with ubuntu

Regards,
Pratyush Nalam
http://reflectionspn.wordpress.com

[Pratyush Nalam]

I think some drivers are not compatible with ubuntu

Regards,
Pratyush Nalam
http://reflectionspn.wordpress.com

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 3:19 AM, Bhavesh khandelwal <bhav.kh...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Pritam Baral]

From the log:

2012-01-29 03:09:37,114 ERROR: Binary package nvidia-current has no trusted origin, rejecting

Do a sudo apt-get update (or Reload in Synaptic,) then try to install it (either via additional driver, or 

sudo apt-get install nvidia-current)

Regards,

Chhatoi Pritam Baral