On 04 Apr 2023 16:56, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 9:18 AM zithro <[email protected]> wrote:I have a bug with the nouveau driver shown in dmesg, so I looked up for solutions. On freedesktop.org, they say to remove everything concerning nvidia first, and only installing/using "nouveau" packages. On my system, I found the package "libxnvctrl0" (by nvidia) which was installed by xfce. If I try to remove "libxnvctrl0", it wants to remove "xfce4-goodies" and "xfce4-sensors-plugin". Then, many packages are marked as "autoremove" (xfce-*, ristretto, ...). Is that normal that xfce packages rely on an official nvidia library, even when using nouveau ? What should I do ? Thanks, have a nice day ! PS: I'm using an up-to-date Debian stable (uname: Linux debian 5.10.0-21-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.162-1 (2023-01-21) x86_64 GNU/Linux). Output of "apt purge libxnvctrl0 --dry-run" : The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libqrencode4 ristretto xfce4-battery-plugin xfce4-clipman xfce4-clipman-plugin xfce4-cpufreq-plugin xfce4-cpugraph-plugin xfce4-datetime-plugin xfce4-dict xfce4-diskperf-plugin xfce4-fsguard-plugin xfce4-genmon-plugin xfce4-mailwatch-plugin xfce4-netload-plugin xfce4-places-plugin xfce4-screenshooter xfce4-smartbookmark-plugin xfce4-systemload-plugin xfce4-taskmanager xfce4-timer-plugin xfce4-verve-plugin xfce4-wavelan-plugin xfce4-weather-plugin xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin xfce4-xkb-plugin Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: libxnvctrl0* xfce4-goodies* xfce4-sensors-plugin* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Purg xfce4-goodies [4.14.0] Purg xfce4-sensors-plugin [1.3.0-3] Purg libxnvctrl0 [470.141.03-1~deb11u1]I think you can take one of two actions. First, if you have not removed the recommended packages that are no longer needed, then use apt-mark to change them from auto to manual. Something like: apt-mark manual xfce4-goodies xfce4-sensors-plugin libxnvctrl0 Second, if you have removed them, then manually install them. Apt should leave them alone after that. Something like: apt-get install xfce4-goodies xfce4-sensors-plugin libxnvctrl0
Thank you for your quick answer ! Unfortunately, "libxnvctrl0" is a dependency for "xfce4-sensors-plugin" : apt show xfce4-sensors-plugin Depends: libxnvctrl0 So marking the packages provides the exact same output as above. Should I report a bug in the "xfce4-sensors-plugin" package ?
