nvidia-96 and nvidia-173 fail to install in precise pangolin (due to unmet dependency xorg-video-abi-10)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Envy |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
nvidia-graphics-drivers-173 (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
nvidia-graphics-drivers-96 (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I have a sony system with a legacy nvidia graphics card, Geforce Ti 4600. I have upgraded the system to precise pangolin i386.
I can see nvidia-96 and nvidia-96-updates in the repositories of precise pangolin but when i go to install them, i get the following error:
sudo apt-get install nvidia-96
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-96 : Depends: xorg-video-abi-10 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
sudo apt-get install nvidia-96-updates
[sudo] password for raja:
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-96-updates : Depends: xorg-video-abi-10 but it is not installable
summary: |
- nvidia-96 fails to install in precise pangolin (due to unmet dependency - xorg-video-abi-10) + nvidia-96 and nvidia-173 fail to install in precise pangolin (due to + unmet dependency xorg-video-abi-10) |
cannot do apport-collect because of the following error
apport-collect 941325 graphics- drivers- 96. 'ProblemType' ,)
No packages found matching nvidia-
ERROR: KeyError(
Gdk-WARNING **: apport-gtk: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.