package fakeroot 1.9.5ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: package fakeroot is already installed and configured

[Uwe Helmuth]

Binary package hint: fakeroot

NVIDIA accelerated video driver installation (version 177). At the end of download system stalled and had to be rebooted.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Dependencies:
 libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1ubuntu11
 gcc-4.3-base 4.3.2-1ubuntu11
 findutils 4.4.0-2ubuntu3
 libc6 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu7
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: package fakeroot is already installed and configured
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: fakeroot 1.9.5ubuntu1
SourcePackage: fakeroot
Title: package fakeroot 1.9.5ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: package fakeroot is already installed and configured
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report.

Could you please try the following command:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall dkms fakeroot

And tell us if you can reproduce the error. Thanks.

[Tbz (tbz)]

Thanks Jean-Baptiste, now fakeroot is installed.
In my case, the bug appeared when I was downloading/installing the driver for my nvidia video card.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

I've just found another bug report with the same problem.

Does anyone have a reliable way of reproducing this?

[mohit narang (mohit123narang)]

this didn't solved my issue for the graphics installation

please anybody help me................

[John F (penjaga)]

I got round this bug by installing the full graphics driver for Nvidia using the Nvidia installation package. It seems that the process for the upgraded grapics driver from the visual effects window loses something.

[Martin Meredith (mez)]

You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[John F (penjaga)]

See my comment of 2009-03-19........I worked around the bug and subsequent Ubuntu versions did not have the problem. So I don't see any problem closing this bug thread. Thanks for the reminder.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for following up. I'm closing this report due to your last comment.
Don't hesitate to submit any new bug.