It sounds like the "nvidia-396" package from that PPA is broken. Please
use 'ppa-purge' to remove the PPA from your system.
Also, sorry that package isn't from the Ubuntu archive so we can't
support it here.
** Package changed: nvidia-graphics-drivers-375 (Ubuntu) => ubuntu
** Changed in: ubuntu
Status: New => Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1788786
Title:
installation of nvidia-396 fails due to "trying to overwrite
'/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/nvidia/xorg/nvidia_drv.so', which is also
in package xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-390 390.48-0ubuntu3"
Status in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
Installation of `nvidia-396` after `sudo add-apt-repository ppa
:graphics-drivers/ppa` on Ubuntu 18.04 fails due to
```
> sudo apt-get install -f nvidia-driver-396
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
libnvidia-cfg1-396 libnvidia-common-396 libnvidia-compute-396
libnvidia-compute-396:i386 libnvidia-decode-396 libnvidia-decode-396:i386
libnvidia-encode-396 libnvidia-encode-396:i386 libnvidia-fbc1-396
libnvidia-fbc1-396:i386
libnvidia-gl-396 libnvidia-gl-396:i386 libnvidia-ifr1-396
libnvidia-ifr1-396:i386 libxnvctrl0 nvidia-compute-utils-396 nvidia-dkms-396
nvidia-kernel-common-396 nvidia-kernel-source-396 nvidia-prime nvidia-settings
nvidia-utils-396 screen-resolution-extra xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-396
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libnvidia-cfg1-390 libnvidia-compute-390 libnvidia-compute-390:i386
xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-390
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libnvidia-cfg1-396 libnvidia-common-396 libnvidia-compute-396
libnvidia-compute-396:i386 libnvidia-decode-396 libnvidia-decode-396:i386
libnvidia-encode-396 libnvidia-encode-396:i386 libnvidia-fbc1-396
libnvidia-fbc1-396:i386
libnvidia-gl-396 libnvidia-gl-396:i386 libnvidia-ifr1-396
libnvidia-ifr1-396:i386 libxnvctrl0 nvidia-compute-utils-396 nvidia-dkms-396
nvidia-driver-396 nvidia-kernel-common-396 nvidia-kernel-source-396 nvidia-prime
nvidia-settings nvidia-utils-396 screen-resolution-extra
xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-396
0 upgraded, 25 newly installed, 4 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/88,1 MB of archives.
After this operation, 224 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [J/n] j
(Reading database ... 748099 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack
.../xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-396_396.54-0ubuntu0~gpu18.04.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-396 (396.54-0ubuntu0~gpu18.04.1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive
/var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-396_396.54-0ubuntu0~gpu18.04.1_amd64.deb
(--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/nvidia/xorg/nvidia_drv.so',
which is also in package xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-390 390.48-0ubuntu3
dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-396_396.54-0ubuntu0~gpu18.04.1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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