nvidia-319-updates/settings shouldn't be installed if another opencl enabled driver is already present

[Christian Bender]

Hello,

I recently installed the gcminer package, using the software-tool and it installed the following packages:
cgminer nvidia-319-updates nvidia-settings-319-updates

I just wanted it to install the cgminer package.

I have used the latest nvidia drivers from their website and so the installation of cgminer installed a second driver on my system that prevented it from working properly. The nvidia driver is not required to use cgminer, it can be used on many different platforms. Please fix the Package on the repository.

I'm using Ubuntu 13.10, cgminer 3.3.1-1.

-Christian Bender

[Christian Bender (cbender)]

It doesn't depend on the NVidia driver, it doesn't even support GPUs any more in the newest version. Even in the old Version a gpu is not neccessary to run gcminer, it can use ASIC/FPGA/GPU.

[Kwaito (soweto)]

I have ATI/AMD GPU cards install in my machine.

Installing this package removes fglrx and fglrx-updates which are required for X.

The alternative is to build opencl from source tar files, same with cgminer.

[Scott Howard (showard314)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, I am closing it because the bug has been fixed in the latest development version of Ubuntu - Trusty Tahr.

If you need a fix for the bug in previous versions of Ubuntu, please follow the instructions for "Requesting a Backport" at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports#Requesting_a_Backport