How can I convert the Nvidia driver installer into a deb?
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Every so often there's a beta version of the Nvidia driver that I want to try out. This has happened today: there's been a big performance issue with version 295.40 and I want to try the shiny new XRandR-enabled 302.07.
I'm more than able to download the installer, remove all the repo-installed driver files and install the new version but it's frankly a pain in the bottom to turn that around and go back to the repo version. It also means I have to re-install the driver manually each time there's a Kernel upgrade.
The other option we commonly give people is a PPA but in this case I'm being really impatient. It's going to be a few days before any PPA gets this but I need to try this today. I've already manually installed it on the media centre and I'm eyeing up my desktop now.
So how do I take an installer (eg: NVIDIA-Linux-x86-302.07.run
) and convert that into a new nvidia-current
/nvidia-current-updates
package?
Another way of asking this might be: How do people package the Nvidia drivers?
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