Can't boot 14.04

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 8 Nov 2016 10:20:00 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
>On 8 November 2016 at 10:12, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Liam, did you perhaps mean revert to Nouveau?  
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>I am very sorry -- you are completely right. Apologies.

"fall back" would fit better. The OP needs features of the proprietary
driver. However, he is free to stay with nouveau, while the package he
needs seemingly is still in the cache.

It's fishy, 304.131-0ubuntu0.14.04.2 is available.
http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/nvidia-current-updates so apt should
find it. Why wasn't it found by the OP's apt? However, it would breake
things by it's dependency.

Anyway.

I should have used dpkg -i and then fix broken or gdebi instead of apt.

Without a path (maybe wildcards would do it, too) apt perhaps tries to
download a package even if .deb is part of the name. If the OP
would have provided the original output, we would have seen what's
actually happening.

I still guess

  sudo apt --no-install-recommends install /var/cache/apt/archives/nvidia-304*131*deb

should work. Anyway

  sudo dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/nvidia-304*131*deb
  sudo apt-get install -f

might be better to get back the wanted proprietary nvidi thingy,
sudo apt-get install -f should have nothing to do.