[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#534957: Bug#534957: Unstable nvidia-glx not installable

[Randall Donald]

On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 16:33 +0200, Daniel Bolton wrote:
> Package: nvidia-glx
> Version: 185.18.14-1
> Severity: important
> 
> 
> When attempting to install nvidia-glx unstable, apt warned me as follows:
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:                 
>   nvidia-glx: Depends: nvidia-kernel-185.18.14 which is a virtual package.
> 

Use module-assistant to build the module package from
nvidia-kernel-source
e.g. module-assistant ai nvidia-kernel



> Please note that this was after I had installed version 185.18.14-1 of nvidia-kernel-source from unstable and nvidia-kernel-common from unstable.
> 
> All solutions offered by aptitude involved downgrading the nvidia packages to "testing". So, as the title states, it was not possible to install this package, nvidia-glx, in unstable. 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-dbb-debian (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> 
> Versions of packages nvidia-glx depends on:
> ii  libc6                  2.9-12            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl 7.0.3-7           A free implementation of the OpenG
> ii  libx11-6               2:1.2.1-1         X11 client-side library
> ii  libxext6               2:1.0.4-1         X11 miscellaneous extension librar
> pn  nvidia-kernel-173.14.0 <none>            (no description available)
> ii  x11-common             1:7.3+19          X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc
> ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime
> 
> nvidia-glx recommends no packages.
> 
> Versions of packages nvidia-glx suggests:
> pn  nvidia-kernel-source          <none>     (no description available)
> ii  nvidia-settings               180.22-1   Tool of configuring the NVIDIA gra
> 
> 
> 
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