Ubuntu
nvidia-graphics-drivers-updates package

  1. Bug #1068341
  2. Comment #27

Comment 27 for bug 1068341

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Peter Wu (lekensteyn) wrote :

Since 12.10, the kernel header packages for Ubuntu are not installed by default. This breaks all DKMS modules, including virtualbox and nvidia-current. I maintain the DKMS module "bbswitch" and it is tempting to add a dependency on "linux-headers-generic" because Ubuntu/dkms screws this up.

DKMS is used for building kernel modules, without headers it cannot do anything. In Raring, the dependency on linux-headers is completely removed, trusting the initial Ubuntu installer even more. Is this reasonable? I don't think so, the dependencies should be handled by dpkg, not by the installer. If DKMS cannot function without kernel headers, it MUST install kernel headers.