A friend was trying to solve this issue on his laptop and mistakenly autoremoved nvidia-prime before shutting down.
Now the laptop won't display anything when booting linux (which doesn't seem too weird). I believe reinstalling the package should fix it, but unfortunately I can't do it the regular way. Here are my options I think:
*Disable the video card in the Bios and work from there. Unfortunately I don't have the laptop at hand so I can't check if this is doable.
*Check if there are any "repair" boot option which would allow me to fix the issue. (Can't tell you for the moment because I don't have my hands on the laptop). I never used those tools before so I don't know what is doable and what isn't.
*Boot on a live usb key and use the package manager to install nvidia-prime but get it to install the package in the main installation root directory rather than on the usb key. I know this is difficult/impossible to do as well.
*Install from source. Allows to choose the target and everything, but there's no real INSTALL guide available on launchpad (no Makefile as well) so I don't really know how to go about it.
Assuming options 1 and 2 don't work, can anyone tell me which option between 3 and 4 is better/doable and how to do it precisely?
The laptop is on Kubuntu 14.04
