NVIDIA Driver Install

[Billie Walsh]

I went to the NVIDIA web page and downloaded the most current driver for 
my computer. It's a ".run" file that, as far as i can tell from my 
reading, supposed to be executable in terminal.

The file name is:

  "NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-256.35.run".

The instructions read:

"Installation instructions: Once you have downloaded the driver, change 
to the directory containing the driver package and install the driver by 
running, as root, sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-256.35-pkg2.run". I have to edit 
the instruction to reflect the actual file name, 
NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-256.35.run.

The file is in my "Downloads" directory so I used Dolphin to open the 
directory and then open a terminal in that directory. I checked the "Is 
Executable" box in the permissions also. When I try to execute the file 
I get an error message that says I'm running "x server", whatever that 
is, and I should exit before running the file. I'm not sure what it 
means [ OK, I'm a dummy ]. Does that mean that somehow I need to boot 
into command line and run it somehow from there?

I looked with Synaptic and Kpackagekit but couldn't tell if this version 
of the driver is available on the repos.

Any help greatly appreciated.

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