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[Patrick Valdellon <valworx@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi André,

As I told you before, you don't have to rely on the janitor for the
nvidia-installation.
The following left me with working nvidia-card:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current nvidia-current-modaliases nvidia-settings

Run the janitor script afterwards, and it will detect the installed
driver, and you can just opt to not change the installation and finish
the script properly.

br,
     Patrick

2010/8/6 André Bergner <andre.bergner.0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi
>
> I'm trying to update my Nvidia drivers from the 195-version to the new
> 256-version with the janitor-script.
> The script was running fine up the point where it wants to install the
> nvidia-driver. download worked fine but then I get the error message
> mkdir: cannot create directory
> `/usr/share/sony-laptop/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-256.44.run/': File exists
>
> The script is trying to create a directory with the same name as the file it
> just downloaded. I absoluty don't understand why this happens. I cannot
> locate the line in the script where it tries to crete that directory. I
> believe it happens somewhere in the function
> create_nvsetupfile(). But this function is crazy, I do not understand at all
> what is happening there.
> The old driver files had the ending -pkg0 . I don't no if the script might
> be confused by that.
> Can anybody help me, please.
> I need my computer working very soon. I'm leaving for some conference in two
> days. need help urgenly.
> br, André
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