Bug#842418: nvidia-driver fails to install

[Frederico Rodrigues Abraham]

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On 29/10/2016 13:02, Nigel Horne wrote:
>
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> 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
>
> -Nigel [ CC'ing the bug, don't know why the other e-mail triggered as 
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