Cross posting from Devuan list, as I know others here use Devuan.

I'm either still too new there to post? Or they use some hidden moderation on top of mailing list confirmation? Or the admin is on vacation this week? *shrug* don't know, 5 posts disappeared into an active list, apologies for bothering those TDE'ers not on Devuan. Michael.

On Monday 17 December 2018 05:49:22 pm Michael wrote:

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:

After further investigation, the missing package is in Debian 9 (Stretch) Contrib:

https://pkgs.org/download/nvidia-installer-cleanup

I tried adding 'contrib' to the end of sources, which worked for 'non-free,' but doesn't seem to work for contrib.

So...  What is the corresponding Devuan repository for Debian Contrib?

If there isn't one, what are the issues with installing the .deb (nvidia-installer-cleanup_20151021+4_amd64.deb) from the above link?

Thanks, 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/debi an 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/debi an stretch main