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Installing bumblebee on Freya

I'm using Elementary OS Freya with UEFI mode. My laptop has two graphic cards (Intel 4400 and nVidia 860 GTX) and it is getting very hot after using about 30-60 minutes.

I tried to install bumblebee but every way I tried (like https://gist.github.com/jorgemario/96b18938090d2bd36405) the nVidia module was not installed correctly and said:

modprobe: FATAL: Module bbswitch not found. [ 924.996622] [ERROR]Module bbswitch could not be loaded (timeout?) [ 924.996656] [WARN]No switching method available. The dedicated card will always be on. [ 924.997915] [ERROR]Module 'nvidia' is not found. 
Saeed Masoumi
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