What has Jockey been replaced with in 14.04?
Open the terminal and type:
sudo apt install ubuntu-drivers-common
ubuntu-drivers-common detects and installs additional Ubuntu driver packages.
This package aggregates and abstracts Ubuntu specific logic and knowledge about third-party driver packages, and provides APIs for installers and driver configuration GUIs. It also contains some NVidia specific support code to find the most appropriate driver version (as Ubuntu usually ships several), as well as setting up the alternatives symlinks that the proprietary NVidia and FGLRX packages use.
Command line interface
The simplest frontend is the "ubuntu-drivers" command line tool. You can use
it to show the available driver packages which apply to the current system
(ubuntu-drivers list
), or to install all drivers which are appropriate for
automatic installation (sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
), which is mostly
useful for integration into installers.
See also: Can I install extra drivers via the command prompt?
jockey
has been superseded by software-properties
in Ubuntu 14.04. Hence forth, software-properties
would handle third-party driver configuration.
Sources: launchpad jockey-gtk amd64 and launchpad jockey-gtk i386.
software-properties-common
available here packages.ubuntu.com and others available here.