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On Saturday, 22 December 2018 17:23, Michael <mb_devuan-mailinglist@???> wrote:

> Sent from ProtonMail, encrypted email based in Switzerland.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.


A workaround is to download the missing packages, nvidia-installer-cleanup and nvidia-legacy-checker, from packages.debian.org

Then use sudo dpkg -i <insert package names> to install the packages or as root user if you don't use sudo.

Then retry installing nvidia-driver.

Rob