[chupasaurus]

Debian does a good job of repackaging nvidia blob to itself's non-free repo to achieve painless install process.

[tomc1985]

Cool, this is good to know! Should be easy to get it hooked up in Mint.

[chupasaurus]

Note: helper packages (i.e. installer cleanup and kernel mod builder) are in both contrib and main repos, so I highly recommend setting up APT-preferences.