It turns out, once you know the answer, it's pretty easy.
You just open the dash / launcher (top icon on the left or "Windows" Key), type in "drivers" where it says "Search your computer and online sources" and run the "Additional Drivers" application that it finds.
Then you can choose the "NVIDIA Binary Driver" and click the "Apply Changes" button.
To give credit where it is due, I found all of that on AskUbuntu.com here:
I basically followed the 12.04 instructions but it worked fine. There are 14.04 specific instructions further down the page.
Upgrading to 14.04 has gotten me around a nasty problem I was having on 12.04 where installing the last 6 NVIDIA updates would cause me to loose the ability to run higher than VGA resolution and that updating to VMWare 10.0.2 left me with a box that would not boot.
I had to do a fresh install of 14.04 since the upgrade also broke my box but having to restore my home directory from an archive is a small price to pay to get where I am now.
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April 27th, 2014 16:00
It turns out, once you know the answer, it's pretty easy.
You just open the dash / launcher (top icon on the left or "Windows" Key), type in "drivers" where it says "Search your computer and online sources" and run the "Additional Drivers" application that it finds.
Then you can choose the "NVIDIA Binary Driver" and click the "Apply Changes" button.
To give credit where it is due, I found all of that on AskUbuntu.com here:
How Do I Install Extra Drivers ?
I basically followed the 12.04 instructions but it worked fine. There are 14.04 specific instructions further down the page.
Upgrading to 14.04 has gotten me around a nasty problem I was having on 12.04 where installing the last 6 NVIDIA updates would cause me to loose the ability to run higher than VGA resolution and that updating to VMWare 10.0.2 left me with a box that would not boot.
I had to do a fresh install of 14.04 since the upgrade also broke my box but having to restore my home directory from an archive is a small price to pay to get where I am now.