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  Installing nvidia-driver removes xorg Gregory Sharp <gregsharp.geo@yahoo.com> - 2018-11-08 19:10 +0100
    Re: Installing nvidia-driver removes xorg Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2018-11-08 22:50 +0100
    Re: Installing nvidia-driver removes xorg floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> - 2018-11-09 13:20 +0100
      Re: Installing nvidia-driver removes xorg Gregory Sharp <gregsharp.geo@yahoo.com> - 2018-11-09 16:40 +0100

#202269 — Installing nvidia-driver removes xorg

I am currently running stretch with the nvidia display driver.  The
nvidia-driver package is not installed.  Instead, the nvidia-kernel-dkms
package and other packages needed for the display driver and CUDA are
installed. 

While attempting an upgrade to CUDA 9 in backport, I learned that installing 
nvidia-driver (either version: 384.130 or 390.87) would uninstall xorg, gdm3,
libreoffice, and many other seemingly useful packages.

Questions:

1) Why should xorg be uninstalled when nvidia-driver is installed?

2) What might be a recommended upgrade path for me?  

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On Thu, 8 Nov 2018 13:01:26 -0500
Gregory Sharp <gregsharp.geo@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hello Gregory,

>1) Why should xorg be uninstalled when nvidia-driver is installed?

Doesn't want to remove xorg here.  As nvidia-driver is a metapackage,
it's not entirely necessary to install it in any case.

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Gregory Sharp schreef op 2018-11-08 19:01:
> I am currently running stretch with the nvidia display driver.  The
> nvidia-driver package is not installed.  Instead, the 
> nvidia-kernel-dkms
> package and other packages needed for the display driver and CUDA are
> installed.
> 
> While attempting an upgrade to CUDA 9 in backport, I learned that 
> installing
> nvidia-driver (either version: 384.130 or 390.87) would uninstall xorg, 
> gdm3,
> libreoffice, and many other seemingly useful packages.
> 
> Questions:
> 
> 1) Why should xorg be uninstalled when nvidia-driver is installed?
> 
> 2) What might be a recommended upgrade path for me?

 From bug 903770 [1]:

... the nvidia packages in stretch-backports now require mesa+libglvnd
from stretch-backports.

You could try to install mesa, libglvnd and xorg from backports first.


[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=903770

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Floris

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On Fri, 09 Nov 2018 13:10:38 +0100
floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> wrote:

> Gregory Sharp schreef op 2018-11-08 19:01:
> > 
> > Questions:
> > 
> > 1) Why should xorg be uninstalled when nvidia-driver is installed?
> > 
> > 2) What might be a recommended upgrade path for me?  
> 
>  From bug 903770 [1]:
> 
> ... the nvidia packages in stretch-backports now require mesa+libglvnd
> from stretch-backports.
> 
> You could try to install mesa, libglvnd and xorg from backports first.
> 
> 
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=903770

Aha.  That explains it.  Thank you much for the link.

I have verified that (1) removing backports from the list of
repositories allows upgrading stable, and (2) a dist-upgrade of nvidia-driver
from stable to stretch-backports installs mesa, etc., which allows upgrade
without removing important packages.

Greg

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