[Bug 1068341] Re: No way to specify correct dependencies for dkms packages (nvidia driver install fails to get matching header)

[Hans Nieser]

I need to elaborate my previous comment: I'm running 12.10 amd64, and
those updates I installed did include a kernel update (3.5.0-18). It
would seem that I did have linux-headers installed for the intially
installed kernel (linux-headers-3.5.0-17), but the updates I installed
did not include the kernel headers for the new kernel. So I'm guessing
if I had installed the NVIDIA drivers before installing the updates, I
might've been fine

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Title:
  No way to specify correct dependencies for dkms packages (nvidia
  driver install fails to get matching header)

Status in “dpkg” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-updates” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix
Status in “software-properties” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Packages which use dkms require the linux-headers-$KERNEL_VER package
  to be installed for each linux-image-$KERNEL_VER which is installed.
  There's currently no way to specify this dependency.

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