Public bug reported: when attempting to install 18.04 on a machine requiring the Nvidia-304 driver pack I get the following error
sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall [sudo] password for tchettle: 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-304 : Depends: xorg-video-abi-11 but it is not installable or xorg-video-abi-12 but it is not installable or xorg-video-abi-13 but it is not installable or xorg-video-abi-14 but it is not installable or xorg-video-abi-15 but it is not installable or xorg-video-abi-18 but it is not installable or xorg-video-abi-19 but it is not installable or xorg-video-abi-20 but it is not installable or xorg-video-abi-23 Depends: xserver-xorg-core but it is not going to be installed Recommends: nvidia-settings (>= 331.20) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. This is repeatable on two machine i have that require this driver pack a dell M1710 laptop that has a 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G71GL [Quadro FX 3500] (rev a1) Description: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS Release: 18.04 And a sun ultra 20 workstation that has a 07:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G71GL [Quadro FX 1500] (rev a1) Description: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS Release: 18.04 ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1802015 Title: Nvidia 304 drivers not installing To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1802015/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs