lib32gcc1 depends on wrong version of gcc-4.9-base, prevents install of nvidia driver

[wateenellende]

On a clean elementary Freya install, plus updates, I tried to install nvidia drivers. Won't work, because lib32gcc1 depends on lib32gcc1, and:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 lib32gcc1 : Depends: gcc-4.9-base (= 4.9-20140406-0ubuntu1) but 4.9.1-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Seems that lib32gcc1 and gcc-4.9-base are out of sync.

[wateenellende (fpbeekhof)]

Problem went away after I disabled "backports - unsupported" and enabled "updates"

[Bernard (bernard24)]

How can you do that from the command line?

All I have found is (from http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1401309.html ):
sudo apt-get remove linux-backports-modules-karmic-generic
sudo apt-get autoremove

Is this the right thing to do for disabling "backports - unsupported"? Also how do you enable "updates"?

Thanks a lot.

[wateenellende (fpbeekhof)]

I disabled / enabled these repo's via the GUI of elementaryOS: "About this
computer" -> "Check for Updates" -> "Settings"

On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Bernard <email address hidden> wrote:

> How can you do that from the command line?
>
> All I have found is (from
> http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1401309.html ):
> sudo apt-get remove linux-backports-modules-karmic-generic
> sudo apt-get autoremove
>
> Is this the right thing to do for disabling "backports - unsupported"?
> Also how do you enable "updates"?
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
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