Installing proprietary NVIDIA drivers on Ubuntu 12.04 via PPA

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Through PPA it’s as simple as:

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

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