nvidia-173 software package provides NVIDIA legacy binary driver - version 173.14.39, you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install nvidia-173
nvidia-173 is installed in your system.
Make ensure the nvidia-173 package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep nvidia-173 *
You will get with nvidia-173 package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Miscellaneous |
| Package | nvidia-173 |
| Version | 173.14.39-0ubuntu3 |
| Description | NVIDIA legacy binary driver - version 173.14.39 |
| Sub Section | misc |