At their web site, Nvidia is able to detect the specific nvidia GPU present in the current system from the web page.
It would thus seem to be reasonable for an nvidia package installation to perfom a similar check during installation, and compare the current GPU against a list of those supported by the software being installed. Unless manually overridden, this could be used to prevent installation of versions of software known to be incompatible with the current GPU from interfering with a separate installation of compatible software. (or to revert steps already performed it if the check could not be performed before changes had already been made) The use of such a check could be prophylactic against bug reports such as this one. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1767116 Title: package nvidia-340 (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/lib/udev/rules.d/71-nvidia.rules', which is also in package nvidia-kernel-common-390 390.48-0ubuntu3 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-340/+bug/1767116/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
