Bug#842418: nvidia-driver fails to install

[Luca Boccassi]

On Oct 28, 2016 23:57, "Nigel Horne" <njh at bandsman.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Package: nvidia-driver
> Severity: normal
>
> My nvidia card has stopped working in anything other than 1024x768 mode
> since Linux 4.5.  Seeing as this makes my desktop unusuable I thought I'd
> ditch the nouveau driver and try the nvidia driver.
>
> However that won't install
>
> apt-get install  nvidia-driver
> 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 : PreDepends: nvidia-installer-cleanup but it is not
installable
>                  PreDepends: nvidia-legacy-check (>= 343) but it is not
going to be installed
>                  Depends: nvidia-driver-libs (= 367.44-3) but it is not
going to be installed
>                  Depends: nvidia-driver-bin (= 367.44-3) but it is not
going to be installed
>                  Depends: xserver-xorg-video-nvidia (= 367.44-3) but it
is not going to be installed
>                  Depends: nvidia-vdpau-driver (= 367.44-3) but it is not
going to be installed
>                  Depends: nvidia-alternative (= 367.44-3) but it is not
going to be installed
>                  Depends: nvidia-kernel-dkms (= 367.44-3) but it is not
going to be installed or
>                           nvidia-kernel-367.44
>                  Depends: nvidia-support but it is not installable
>                  Recommends: nvidia-settings (>= 367) but it is not
installable
>                  Recommends: nvidia-persistenced but it is not installable
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: stretch/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/20 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>

Hi,

It says there nvidia-support is not installable, can you please try to
install that package individually and report what the error is?

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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