Public bug reported: I have a sony system with a legacy nvidia graphics card, Geforce Ti 4600. I have upgraded the system to precise pangolin i386. I can see nvidia-96 and nvidia-96-updates in the repositories of precise pangolin but when i go to install them, i get the following error:
sudo apt-get install nvidia-96 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies. nvidia-96 : Depends: xorg-video-abi-10 but it is not installable E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. sudo apt-get install nvidia-96-updates [sudo] password for raja: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies. nvidia-96-updates : Depends: xorg-video-abi-10 but it is not installable Recommends: nvidia-settings-updates but it is not going to be installed ** Affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers-96 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/941325 Title: nvidia-96 fails to install in precise pangolin To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-96/+bug/941325/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs