CUDA installation on Ubuntu 21.04 raises 'Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.'

PPR

10/18/22, 8:37 PM

I'm trying to install NVIDIA CUDA drivers on my Dell XPS 15 9560 laptop. Do you know how I can address this error? I attempted installing the missing packages using sudo apt install {package-name} without any success.

___@___-XPS-15-9560:~$ sudo apt install nvidia-cuda-toolkit
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
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:
 libcuinj64-11.2 : Depends: libnvidia-compute-460 (>= 460) but it is not going to be installed or
                            libnvidia-compute-460-server (>= 460) but it is not going to be installed or
                            libcuda.so.1 (>= 460) but it is not installable or
                            libcuda-11.2-1
 libnvidia-ml-dev : Depends: libnvidia-compute-460 (>= 460) but it is not going to be installed or
                             libnvidia-compute-460-server (>= 460) but it is not going to be installed or
                             libnvidia-ml.so.1 (>= 460) but it is not installable
 nvidia-cuda-dev : Depends: libnvidia-compute-460 (>= 460) but it is not going to be installed or
                            libnvidia-compute-460-server (>= 460) but it is not going to be installed or
                            libcuda.so.1 (>= 460) but it is not installable or
                            libcuda-11.2-1
                   Recommends: libnvcuvid1 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

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user10489

10/19/22, 1:13 AM

There is a conflicting version of cuda installed and the conflicting pieces must be uninstalled to install the new ones. `apt install cuda -oldpackage` will fix it, but you have to get a list of the oldpackages that conflict, and I haven't found a trivial way to do that yet.

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EN: CUDA installation on Ubuntu 21.04 raises 'Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.'

TH: การติดตั้ง CUDA บน Ubuntu 21.04 ขึ้นว่า 'ไม่สามารถแก้ไขปัญหาได้ คุณมีแพ็คเกจที่ใช้งานไม่ได้'

RO: Instalarea CUDA pe Ubuntu 21.04 ridică „Nu se pot corecta problemele, ați păstrat pachete sparte”.

RU: Установка CUDA в Ubuntu 21.04 вызывает сообщение «Невозможно исправить проблемы, у вас есть поврежденные пакеты».

VI: Cài đặt CUDA trên Ubuntu 21.04 phát sinh 'Không thể khắc phục sự cố, bạn đã giữ các gói bị hỏng.'

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