Missing nvidia-settings application

Question

To make a long story short, I seem to have lost my nvidia-settings application. So, when I select Settings from the drop down, and then Display, I don't see the configuration screen that I normally associate with nvidia-settings application. I tried to reinstall, and it doesn't seem to work:

$ sudo nvidia-settings
sudo: nvidia-settings: command not found

$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-settings
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
nvidia-settings is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 26 not upgraded.

$ echo $PATH
/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games

Anyways, what am I over looking? Also, is there any other nvidia applications I might be missing?

thanks!

Edit: As per suggestion I tried to install nvidia-settings, but still not working

 $ sudo apt-get install nvidia-current 
 Reading package lists... Done 
 Building dependency tree 
 Reading state information... Done 
 nvidia-current is already the newest version. 
 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 26 not upgraded. 

 $ nvidia-settings 
 nvidia-settings: command not found 

 $ sudo nvidia-settings 
 sudo: nvidia-settings: command not found

Solution

You need to install both the driver and the corresponding nvidia-settings application, which is packaged seperately.

The following will install the latest Nvidia driver with the corresponding nvidia-settings application.

sudo apt-get install nvidia-current-updates nvidia-settings-updates

BTW: You don't always have to run the application as root, only when you want to write the xorg.conf.

Comments

[Badministrator]

That didn't seem to work. Here's what I get: (By the way, someone edited my original post to put my modified screen output in a nice box... how do I do that?) > $ sudo apt-get install nvidia-current > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > nvidia-current is already the newest version. > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 26 not upgraded. > > $ nvidia-settings > nvidia-settings: command not found > > $ sudo nvidia-settings > sudo: nvidia-settings: command not found

[Web-E]

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[Web-E]

what is output of whereis nvidia-settings

[Badministrator]

$ whereis nvidia-settings nvidia-settings: /usr/bin/nvidia-settings /usr/lib/nvidia-settings /usr/bin/X11/nvidia-settings /usr/share/man/man1/nvidia-settings.1.gz $ echo $PATH /usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr‌​/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin‌​:/bin:/usr/games I see it's not in my path, but I also realize the path I just typed is mine and not root. How do I get it to show up in root so that when I select the Settings drop down from my desktop window, I can use the program once again? Thanks!

[Csabi Vidó]

Wrong, nvidia-settings is recommended by the drivers but is packaged separately and because auf that will not be automatically installed. packages.ubuntu.com/precise/nvidia-settings packages.ubuntu.com/precise/nvidia-current

[Badministrator]

Well, I've gotten further. By putting both nvidia packages in the same apt-get install command (as you list above) I was able to run nvidia-settings from the prompt. But, if I click the 'gear icon' (the thing on the top right corner of my desktop), and if I select Displays..., it doesn't use the nvidia application. Do I need to do a restart? anyways, I don't remember now if selecting Displays... is suppose to use the nvidia application. Anyways, thanks for getting me this far!