In GPU-journey-install-nvidia-drivers, we talked about how to pack a new nvidia driver for Ubuntu. But I just realized that there is a better convenient way to do those stuff.

All the packages on ppa were came from the template hosted on github: https://github.com/mamarley/nvidia-graphics-drivers/ But I changed a bit for version 375 because it seems different version could not share the same code base: https://github.com/alex-tu-cc/nvidia-graphics-drivers But the real code base which be used to release should be Alberto github (so far is branch 375)

So, the correct way is:

1. checkout the template from my github branch test-375.39 Alberto github branch 375.
2. download .run file from the ftp url in debian/rules or from Nvidia webside (but the default filename in debian/rules is that one on ftp). ex. download version [375.39][ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/375.39]
3. copy both 32bit and 64bit to the root of folder in step 1.
4. $ dch ;to change the version to nvidia driver version. (step 3. and 4. are interchangeable)
5. $ debclean;replace version string by debclean
6. $ debuild -i -b -us -uc ;build package

2017-03-20 updated: I found an old article after posting this one, it also teach people how to pack new nvidia driver by bump major version.

• Mini-HOWTO: Building a Deb Package for Beta NVidia Drivers