I installed Nvidia drivers the last couple times via the Debian aptitude package manager with this command. > aptitude install nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-settings nvidia-xconfig > nvidia-xconfig Never has there been an 'installer' prompt. I have used the 'module assistant' method of compiling a deb package before as well. and there wasn't a prompt for libraries to be downloaded. I should note that I'm running a 64bit kernel (amd64).