How to Install nvidia-prime software package in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

How to Install nvidia-prime software package in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

nvidia-prime software package provides Tools to enable NVIDIAs Prime, 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-prime 

nvidia-prime is installed in your system.

Make ensure the nvidia-prime package were installed using the commands given below,

$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep nvidia-prime *

You will get with nvidia-prime package name, version, architecture and description in a table

nvidia-prime package basic information:

Distro Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr
Section Administration Utilities
Package nvidia-prime
Version 0.6.2
Description Tools to enable NVIDIAs Prime
Sub Section Admin


See Also, How to uninstall or remove nvidia-prime software package from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)?