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I used this utility to upgrade all of my Intel modules on my machine, but soon after learned that it was a really bad idea to upgrade these because of incompatibilities, and especially with Unity.

I understand that it is good to wait for Canonical to release the updates so that nothing bad happens when you apply them as they may come with other patches which fix the incompatibilities.

So really what my question is, if Canonical does not provide these latest module upgrades, how can I run this software which requires them? Or equally, how can I safely install them?

Information Update:

Specifically the modules that I need to upgrade are my graphics ones.

OS Information:

Description:    Ubuntu 14.10
Release:    14.10
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My apologies, but it's unclear (at least to me) what Intel modules you are speaking of as well as what software you need them to run properly. Please edit your question to clarify. This will help us help you! Thank you! – Elder Geek Apr 11 '15 at 19:38
    
@ElderGeek: OK, I have edited my question to include that information. – Paranoid Panda Apr 11 '15 at 19:42
    
@ElderGeek: If you wish for me to provide any more information please just ask and I will include it in my question. – Paranoid Panda Apr 11 '15 at 19:42
    
Sorry, I don't mean to be a pain, but without knowing exactly which intel graphics drivers you feel are required or exactly which chess game you require them for I have no way of testing a solution. – Elder Geek Apr 11 '15 at 19:45
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Did you dig into the details and also install the supported Intel graphics stack? 01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads/2014/… – Elder Geek Apr 11 '15 at 20:09
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The easiest way to keep your video drivers updates is the xorg.edgers PPA. These include Mesa, nVidia and Bumblebee.

However, as the xorg.edgers group ask not to give installation instructions directly without linking to their page, this is the best I can do for now...

If you don't know what a PPA is or need some guidance about rolling forward and backward of driver versions after reading their page, leave a comment below. I like to honour the people that put all of their great work out there for us mere mortals, so this is a bit out of my control...

So feel free to comment below!

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Intel also? o_O – A.B. Aug 30 '15 at 10:36
    
Mesa, sorry... Adapted! – Fabby Aug 30 '15 at 10:58
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There's a community mantained installer for the latest Intel drivers at 01.org:

  1. Download the latest version of Intel(R) Graphics Installer for Linux from here
  2. Open the .deb file to open the package into Ubuntu Software Center
  3. Click on the "Install" button on the top-right corner
  4. Hit the Super key (or click on the Unity Dash icon on the Unity Launcher) and type "Intel(R) Graphics Installer For Linux"
  5. Click on the program's icon and go through the walkthrough
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This is the utility that I was told would be dangerous (I linked to it in my question as well). – Paranoid Panda Feb 20 '16 at 15:49
    
@ParanoidPanda Why would it be dangerous? – kos Feb 20 '16 at 17:29
    
I don't know, ask Fabby, he's the one who said it... – Paranoid Panda Feb 20 '16 at 17:33

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