** Description changed: - On Quantal x86_64, you can't install nvidia-cuda-dev if you've got the - nvidia-experimental drivers installed, which are the only supported - drivers for things like the Steam beta: + [SRU] The debdiff attached to comment #5 backports the required changes + from nvidia-cuda-toolkit 5.0.35-4 in Raring. + + [IMPACT] + Users with only nvidia-experimental-304 or nvidia-experimental-310 installed are unable to install nvidia-cuda-toolkit without nvidia-current (which conflicts) being installed. + Users with only nvidia-experimental-304 or nvidia-experimental-310 installed are unable to build nvidia-cuda-toolkit from its source package. + + [Test Cases] + Install nvidia-experimental-304 or nvidia-experimental-310 (this can be done on computers without Nvidia hardware) and then attempt to install nvidia-cuda-toolkit. + + [Regression Potential] + Minimal: the changes only affect the installation of nvidia-cuda-toolkit by allowing additional packages to satisfy its dependencies. + + Original bug description: + On Quantal x86_64, you can't install nvidia-cuda-dev if you've got the nvidia-experimental drivers installed, which are the only supported drivers for things like the Steam beta: $ sudo apt-get install nvidia-cuda-dev Reading package lists... Done - Building dependency tree + Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: - libcublas4 libcudart4 libcufft4 libcuinj4 libcurand4 libcusparse4 libnpp4 libthrust-dev libvdpau-dev nvidia-current + libcublas4 libcudart4 libcufft4 libcuinj4 libcurand4 libcusparse4 libnpp4 libthrust-dev libvdpau-dev nvidia-current Suggested packages: - nvidia-cuda-toolkit libvdpau-doc + nvidia-cuda-toolkit libvdpau-doc The following packages will be REMOVED: - nvidia-experimental-310 + nvidia-experimental-310 The following NEW packages will be installed: - libcublas4 libcudart4 libcufft4 libcuinj4 libcurand4 libcusparse4 libnpp4 libthrust-dev libvdpau-dev nvidia-cuda-dev nvidia-current + libcublas4 libcudart4 libcufft4 libcuinj4 libcurand4 libcusparse4 libnpp4 libthrust-dev libvdpau-dev nvidia-cuda-dev nvidia-current 0 upgraded, 11 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 146 MB of archives. After this operation, 427 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n There's no reason this package incompatibility exists, CUDA operations should be available with any version of the nvidia binary drivers. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: nvidia-cuda-dev (not installed) ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-19.30-generic 3.5.7 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-19-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu9 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Dec 19 11:00:00 2012 MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: nvidia-cuda-toolkit UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-23 (56 days ago)
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