No Additional Drivers entry to install NVIDIA

Bug #1606561 reported by Roland Hughes
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Bug Description

Current release pulled down from DistroWatch yesterday has no "Additional Drivers" entry to install NVIDIA drivers so BOINC can use GPU

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: elementary 0.4
Package: elementary-desktop 1.413+468~daily~ubuntu0.4.1 [origin: LP-PPA-elementary-os-daily]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-31.50-generic 4.4.13
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-31-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: elementary_meta
CurrentDesktop: Pantheon
Date: Tue Jul 26 07:16:56 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-07-26 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: elementary OS 0.4 "Loki" - Daily amd64 (20160716)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: elementary-meta
SuspiciousXErrors:

ThirdParty: True
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Roland Hughes (original-seasoned-geek) wrote :
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Shubham Arora (arshubham) wrote :

Install the package software-properties-gtk from the terminal.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install software-properties-gtk

Then search Slingshot for Software & Updates

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