Bug#776071: nvidia-driver: apt-get install nvidia-driver on fresh install of jessie amd64 yields an error

[R. Andrew Bailey]

Package: nvidia-driver
Version: 340.65-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

 After a fresh install and one iteration of update/upgrade of jessie amd64
yesterday, when running apt-get install nvidia-driver, I get the following
error:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 nvidia-driver : Depends: libgl1-nvidia-glx (= 340.65-2) but it is not going to
be installed
                 Depends: libegl1-nvidia (= 340.65-2) but it is not going to be
installed
                 Depends: nvidia-driver-bin (= 340.65-2) but it is not going to
be installed
                 Depends: xserver-xorg-video-nvidia (= 340.65-2) but it is not
going to be installed
                 Depends: nvidia-vdpau-driver (= 340.65-2) but it is not going
to be installed
                 Depends: nvidia-alternative (= 340.65-2) but it is not going
to be installed
                 Depends: nvidia-kernel-dkms (= 340.65-2) but it is not going
to be installed or
                          nvidia-kernel-340.65
                 Depends: nvidia-support but it is not installable
                 PreDepends: nvidia-installer-cleanup but it is not installable
                 Recommends: nvidia-settings (>= 340) but it is not installable
                 Recommends: libgl1-nvidia-glx-i386 but it is not installable
                 Recommends: libgles1-nvidia (= 340.65-2) but it is not going
to be installed
                 Recommends: libgles2-nvidia (= 340.65-2) but it is not going
to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.


I checked for held packages, but don't see any. The folks on the freenode
debian channel suggested enabling multiarch, since no amd64 candidate for
libgl1-nvidia-glx-i386 could be found, but when trying that, I get a different
error about dependencies on virtual packages.

My guess is that I'm going about installing the package in the wrong way, but
the most recent information I could find on the wiki indicated that installing
nvidia-driver was the right thing to do.

I tried reinstalling the box from scratch thinking I might have botched
something in the install, but see the same behavior afterwards.

Thanks in advance, and I'm happy to do any troubleshooting you need!

Here are some apt-cache policy snippets after removing i386 multiarch

raym7046 at mrsparkle ~ $ apt-cache policy nvidia-driver
nvidia-driver:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 340.65-2
  Version table:
     340.65-2 0
        500 http://ftp.utexas.edu/debian/ jessie/non-free amd64 Packages

raym7046 at mrsparkle ~ $ apt-cache policy libgl1-nvidia-glx-i386
libgl1-nvidia-glx-i386:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: (none)
  Version table:


Thanks and sorry to be a bother!




-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)