[Bug 1092259] Re: nvidia-cuda-dev conflicts with nvidia-experimental-*

[Stefano Rivera]

** Changed in: nvidia-cuda-toolkit (Ubuntu Precise)
       Status: New => In Progress

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Title:
  nvidia-cuda-dev conflicts with nvidia-experimental-*

Status in “nvidia-cuda-toolkit” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “nvidia-cuda-toolkit” source package in Precise:
  In Progress
Status in “nvidia-cuda-toolkit” source package in Quantal:
  New
Status in “nvidia-cuda-toolkit” package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [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
  Reading state information... Done
  The following extra packages will be installed:
    libcublas4 libcudart4 libcufft4 libcuinj4 libcurand4 libcusparse4 libnpp4 libthrust-dev libvdpau-dev nvidia-current
  Suggested packages:
    nvidia-cuda-toolkit libvdpau-doc
  The following packages will be REMOVED:
    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
  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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