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unusual error launching ddm-mx from console, the issue seems to be related to flag "-N", since a plain "ddm-mx -i nvidia" raise no errors...

$ sudo ddm-mx -i nvidia -N
Distribution: MX

INSTALL IS nvidia
creating lock ...
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ddm-mx: 25.01.03
kernel release: 6.11.10-amd64
kernel version: #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.11.10-1~mx23ahs (2024-11-29)
command parameters: -i nvidia -N
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Install drivers for: nvidia
Start at (m/d/y): 03/30/2025 11:34:18
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To restore open source drivers use:
sudo ddm-mx -p nvidia

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Refreshing Sources with apt-get update

Continue?
1) yes (default)
2) no
Press <Enter> for the default entry
Use 'q' to quit

Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease
Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease
Hit:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports InRelease
Get:5 https://download.mono-project.com/repo/debian stable-buster InRelease [5,874 B]
Hit:6 https://apt.repos.intel.com/oneapi all InRelease
Hit:7 https://mxrepo.com/mx/repo bookworm InRelease
Fetched 5,874 B in 4s (1,316 B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
/usr/bin/ddm-mx: line 346: [: =: unary operator expected
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Possible previous install detected.
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To restore open source drivers use:
sudo ddm-mx -p nvidia

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Thanks.

Will check it out thanks