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

Daniel Hollocher 1068341 at bugs.launchpad.net
Mon Nov 19 17:56:53 UTC 2012


comment 7-8 is incorrect.  You can test this by removing ALL packages
that satisfy the linux-headers virtual dependency, and watch and nvidia-
current* doesn't get removed.  Then try re-installing nvidia-current,
watch as no headers get installed.

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

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

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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  This bug is caused by the allowing of eg. linux-lowlatency kernel's
  headers, while the actual bug people are hitting is bug #1068488 ie.
  the Ubuntu 12.10 installer doesn't install linux-headers-generic by
  default.

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