Bug#842418: nvidia-driver fails to install

[Nigel Horne]

On 10/29/2016 10:54 AM, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> On 29 October 2016 at 10:31, Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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?

Thanks for your response.  Here is what I get, I hope it helps:

# apt-get install nvidia-support
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package nvidia-support is not available, but is referred to by another 
package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'nvidia-support' has no installation candidate
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Luca Boccassi

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