There is already an official NVIDIA driver PPA

A few days ago we were talking about Canonical thinking about create a PPA of drivers NVIDIA to help install graphics drivers for these cards in Ubuntu. Well, yesterday the news broke that the PPA of drivers NVIDIA already exists officially and that it can be used now.

This is one great news for Ubuntu users, that in this way they see much more simplified keeping up to date with the latest drivers thanks to the PPA of drivers NVIDIA which has been launched with the approval of Canonical.

In the previous article we talked about Jorge Castro  had already expressed a desire to create a PPA of drivers NVIDIA, with the idea that Gamers they could always have the latest controllers with which to get the most out of their games. The not Gamers generally work well with drivers stable, but taking into account how recent is the Gaming on linux Without resorting to emulators or compatibility layers, it is logical that there are those who have to be up to date in this section.

This leads us to speak, taking advantage of the fact that there is already a PPA of drivers NVIDIA, from When will we start seeing the first triple A games on Linux?. At the moment the game offer is still very limited to independent titles - many excellent, like Braid, it must be said - although this is a debate for another time.

How to add the NVIDIA driver PPA

As of this writing, the PPA of drivers NVIDIA offers the stable version 352.30 and the latest beta, encoded as 355.06. Along with them you can also find libvdpau 1.1 y vdpauinfo 1.0, all this for Ubuntu 14.04, 15.04 and 15.10. There is also some old package for Ubuntu 12.04, specifically the driver 346.87.
Before going on to give you the PPA, you should bear in mind that it is not safe to add the PPA of drivers NVIDIA until description of it say it. If you still want to add it, open a terminal and enter these commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt-get update

To install the drivers through this PPA use Synaptic, AppGrid or the USC  to find the version that suits you best and download it to your computer.