Hi All,

[Minimal install, Devuan ASCII w/ Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE)]

I’m trying to install NVIDIA drivers for a GTX 1060. I’m basically following
the Debian instructions [1], modified for Devuan and got to the last step,
which error-ed out. The summary of the error is:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
nvidia-driver : PreDepends: nvidia-installer-cleanup but it is not
installable

I’d also like someone to check if I’ve modified sources.list correctly.

Full command line output and error message below:

Thanks all,
Michael

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers


root@local [/etc/apt]# lspci -nn | egrep -i "3d|display|vga"
2e:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GP106 [GeForce
GTX 1060 6GB] [10de:1c03] (rev a1)


*Same error whether or not you use backports
root@local [/etc/apt]# apt-get install -t ascii-backports nvidia-driver
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-driver : PreDepends: nvidia-installer-cleanup but it is not 
installable
                 PreDepends: nvidia-legacy-check (>= 343) but it is not going 
to be installed
                 Depends: nvidia-driver-libs (= 390.87-4~bpo9+1) but it is not 
going to be installed or
                          nvidia-driver-libs-nonglvnd (= 390.87-4~bpo9+1) but 
it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: nvidia-driver-bin (= 390.87-4~bpo9+1) but it is not 
going to be installed
                 Depends: xserver-xorg-video-nvidia (= 390.87-4~bpo9+1) but it 
is not going to be installed
                 Depends: nvidia-vdpau-driver (= 390.87-4~bpo9+1) but it is 
not going to be installed
                 Depends: nvidia-alternative (= 390.87-4~bpo9+1) but it is not 
going to be installed
                 Depends: nvidia-kernel-dkms (= 390.87-4~bpo9+1) but it is not 
going to be installed or
                          nvidia-kernel-390.87
                 Depends: nvidia-support but it is not installable
                 Recommends: nvidia-settings (>= 390) but it is not 
installable
                 Recommends: nvidia-persistenced but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

root@local [/etc/apt]# ll /etc/X11/xorg.conf
ls: cannot access '/etc/X11/xorg.conf': No such file or directory



root@local [/etc/apt]# cat sources.list
#

# deb cdrom:[devuan_ascii_2.0.0_amd64_dvd-1]/ ascii main non-free
# deb cdrom:[devuan_ascii_2.0.0_amd64_dvd-1]/ ascii main non-free

deb http://us.deb.devuan.org/merged ascii main non-free
deb-src http://us.deb.devuan.org/merged ascii main non-free


deb http://us.deb.devuan.org/merged ascii-security main non-free
deb-src http://us.deb.devuan.org/merged ascii-security main non-free

deb http://us.deb.devuan.org/merged ascii-updates main non-free
deb-src http://us.deb.devuan.org/merged ascii-updates main non-free

deb     http://deb.devuan.org/merged ascii-backports main non-free
deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged ascii-backports main non-free

## Trinity - TDE R14.0.5
deb http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity-r14.0.0/debian
stretch main
deb
http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity-builddeps-r14.0.0/debian
stretch main
deb-src http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity-r14.0.0/debian
stretch main
deb-src
http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity-builddeps-r14.0.0/debian
stretch main