Bug#779186: apt-get output

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2015-02-25 20:13, José Luis García Pallero wrote:
> 2015-02-25 19:29 GMT+01:00 José Luis García Pallero <jgpallero at gmail.com>:
>> Thank you for your answer. I've never done a restoration from a backup
>> but I have always problems with OpenGL libraries. I'll try to explain
>> it. Before the AMD card I had a NVIDIA one. I work with the GPU only
>> for some CUDA testing, so I used the official NVIDIA driver (not the
>> Debian package, but the driver downloaded from nvidia.com). But I have
>> installed also in the system GNU Octave compiled by myself, wich is
>> linked against GL from libgl1-mesa-swx11. When I installed the NVIDIA
>> driver, Octave plotting doesn't work because the links to GL from
>> libgl1-mesa-swx11 were deleted or changed by the NVIDIA driver. The
>> solution was to reinstall libgl1-mesa-swx11. In this way, the GL
>> libraries work fine for Octave and I could use the NVIDIA GPU only for
>> CUDA algebra computations. It is a mess, but it works for me. I
>> suppose the ls -la /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.2.0 is a
>> consequence of that (and I don't know if there is any other problem)
> 
> I don't remember exactly why I used the NVIDIA driver from nvidia.com
> instead of the Debian nvidia-driver package. I remember that I had to
> blacklist the module nouveau in order to install the driver from
> nvidia.com. But if I try to install the nvidia-driver package I can
> see as dependency the xserver-xorg-nvidia package. Should I maintain
> nouveau in blacklist if I install nvidia-driver?

nvidia-installer (i.e. the .run file from Nvidia) does not integrate to
well with a Debian system, and maybe nvidia-installer-cleanup (a Debian
package) could cleanup a bit more after newer versions of nvidia-installer.

the Debian packaging takes care of blacklisting nouveau if nvidia-driver
is installed and activated.


As I see it there is not really a bug in the packaging here :-) (at most
a wishlist one against nvidia-installer-cleanup, but way to vage for
now), so I'm going to close this bug report at some point.

Andreas