Comment 61 for bug 741930

removing nouveau doesnt seem to make any difference. I have tried a number of dpkg commands, hoping to display the echos from the postinst script, but I cant seem to find anything useful.

for example:
sudo dpkg -D200 -i nvidia-96_96.43.20-0ubuntu1~athome1_i386.deb

Any suggestions on which debug level to try, or is there another way to print the script text to the screen? I think it would be helpful in narrowing down where the script fails.

Also I have tried running the postinst scrip from /var/lib/dpkg/info.
sh nvidia-96.postinst only returns
postinst called with unknown argument `'

I am reluctant to remove set -e from the script, but if someone thinks the result would be useful. I'll give it a try.