package nvidia-opencl-icd-361:i386 held back

[Tommy Trussell]

On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 11:50 AM, P. Echols <p.echo926 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> apt-get dist-upgrade gives the following message:
>
> The following packages have been kept back:
>   nvidia-opencl-icd-361:i386
>
> I am wondering if this is something I should be concerned about and if it
> is just cruft, if I should remove it.  While I found the info about my
> system below, I'm not sure how to interpret it in connection with this.  My
> concern is that I have a system that, while working is not continuing to
> get updates.
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux XPS-8700 4.4.0-47-generic #68-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 26 19:39:52 UTC
> 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> $ lsb_release -d
> Description:    Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
>
> $ lspci -k | grep -A 3 -i "VGA"
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107 [GeForce GTX
> 745] (rev a2)
>     Subsystem: NVIDIA Corporation GM107 [GeForce GTX 745]
>     Kernel driver in use: nvidia
>     Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nouveau, nvidia_340
>


I'm running Xenial but not NVIDIA, so I don't know for sure, but when I
look at it on MY system, it tells me it can be safely removed. Here's what
I'm looking at:

$ apt show nvidia-opencl-icd-361
Package: nvidia-opencl-icd-361
Version: 367.57-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
Priority: optional
Section: restricted/misc
Source: nvidia-graphics-drivers-367
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 18.4 kB
Depends: nvidia-opencl-icd-367
Supported: 5y
Download-Size: 4,926 B
APT-Sources: http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/restricted
amd64 Packages
Description: Transitional package for nvidia-opencl-icd-367
 This is a transitional package for nvidia-opencl-icd-367, and can be
 safely removed after the installation is complete.

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