Remove Nvidia Proprietary Driver to avoid crashing

Ug... best not to purchase one of these in the first place.  Buy a different card if you can.  Nvidia is the worst.

Symptom:  Running Ubuntu 16.04 and after loading the proprietary Nvidia driver and rebooting login would fail and loop back to the login screen again.

Removed using the following:

Ctrl+Alt+F1 so you can get to a tty prompt

sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia*
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
echo "nouveau" | sudo tee -a /etc/modules
sudo reboot

sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean

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After upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04 Totem unable to play flv files in firefox.

To fix... ran:
sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad-videoparsers


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Office Communicator via Pidgin for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Installed Pidgin from repository on Ubuntu 12.04...

Added SIPE plugin from here:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/quantal/amd64/pidgin-sipe/1.11.2-1ubuntu1

Project screen shots are here:
http://sipe.sourceforge.net/screens/

I was running a live DVD so even though newer versions were available it complicated the dependencies and I was in a hurry... so I loaded this version.

Under Basic Tab:
Listed SIP account as the username.
Login:  Used my AD account and PW

Under Advanced I changed email address if different from login name to match my actual email address.

How to fix libnss3 error on Ubuntu 12.04

google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

Answer was to satisfy the dependencies by running:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libgconf2-4 libnss3-1d libxss1

then:

download chrome for linux from here:

https://www.google.com/chrome?brand=CHMO#eula

then:

sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb