CUDA Installation – Resolve Package Dependency Problem on Ubuntu 14.04

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I tried to follow the instructions on this link to install CUDA on Ubuntu 14.04, but on this step I got package dependency problem:

~/Downloads$ sudo apt-get install cudaReading 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:
 cuda : Depends: cuda-7-0 (= 7.0-28) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Does someone know what could be the problem?

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Option 1: apt-get

Install unmet dependencies

sudo apt-get install cuda-runtime-7-0
...
<more unmet dependencies>
....
sudo apt-get install cuda-7-0

Install main package
```
sudo apt-get install cuda
```

Option 2: aptitude

Install aptitude
```
sudo apt-get install aptitude
```
Install main package
```
sudo aptitude install cuda
```

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I have a pc with an old Geforce 6800 card and I have managed to successfully install the 32bit Nvidia 304.137 driver for it on Lubuntu 18.04; all thanks to a community patch. Here is the procedure.

Install build tools

$ sudo apt install gcc make build-essential gcc-multilib dkms mesa-utils

Download driver from https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/123708/en-us

Download patch from https://adufray.com/nvidia-304.137-bionic-18.04.patch

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$ ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.137.run -x
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Disable nouveau driver and reboot

$ sudo -i
# cat << END > /etc/modprobe.d/disable-nouveau.conf
blacklist nouveau
blacklist vga16fb
blacklist rivafb
blacklist nvidiafb
blacklist rivatv
blacklist amd76_edac
options nouveau modeset=0
END
# update-initramfs -u
# reboot

Stop x-server
Logout
Bring up terminal with Ctrl-Alt-F1, login

$ sudo -i
# service lightdm stop
# init 3

Install NVidia driver
Ignore the first warning about preinstall failing, agree to driver recompilation on kernel update and to configuration files update. Reboot.

# ./nvidia-installer
# reboot

Driver should be working now. Check with the following:

$ lshw -c video 2>&1 | grep driver

Should output "configuration: driver=nvidia"

There is one small problem though. Apparently Nvidia driver installs it's own version of libvdpau, which does not work with mplayer. That's why we need to forcefully reinstall libvdpau (and possibly need to do this on kernel update, because driver will recompile and reinstall it's own, non-functioning version for this library?)

$ sudo apt --reinstall install libvdpau1

References: Compiling nVidia 304.137 on Ubuntu 18.04: https://adufray.com/blog/2018/06/02/nvidia-304-127-on-bionic
How to install NVIDIA.run?: How to install NVIDIA.run?

PS: This post is basically a duplicate of my post at ubuntu-mate.community, but since installing 304 Nvidia driver on Lubuntu 18.04 is a very common problem, I have decided to make additional post on askubuntu.

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