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all. I'm trying to fix my system so I can install the nvidia drivers but it seems to get stuck for some reason. I have tried manually removing the downloaded files from 

/var/cache/apt/archives/libnvidia-gl-390_390.48-0ubuntu3_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libnvidia-gl-390_390.48-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb

... in order to let them download again but to no avail. Have anyone tried installing those drivers on 18.04 lately?

~$ sudo apt --fix-broken install
[sudo] password for jarl: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  lib32gcc1 libc6-i386
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libnvidia-gl-390 libnvidia-gl-390:i386
The following NEW packages will be installed
  libnvidia-gl-390 libnvidia-gl-390:i386
0 to upgrade, 2 to newly install, 0 to remove and 4 not to upgrade.
3 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/29,1 MB of archives.
After this operation, 147 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 214344 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libnvidia-gl-390_390.48-0ubuntu3_i386.deb ...
diversion of /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 to /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.distrib by nvidia-340
dpkg-divert: error: mismatch on package
  when removing 'diversion of /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 by libnvidia-gl-390'
  found 'diversion of /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 to /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.distrib by nvidia-340'
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libnvidia-gl-390_390.48-0ubuntu3_i386.deb (--unpack):
 new libnvidia-gl-390:i386 package pre-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 2
Preparing to unpack .../libnvidia-gl-390_390.48-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb ...
diversion of /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.distrib by nvidia-340
dpkg-divert: error: mismatch on package
  when removing 'diversion of /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 by libnvidia-gl-390'
  found 'diversion of /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.distrib by nvidia-340'
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libnvidia-gl-390_390.48-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 new libnvidia-gl-390:amd64 package pre-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libnvidia-gl-390_390.48-0ubuntu3_i386.deb
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libnvidia-gl-390_390.48-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Jarl Arntzen
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Found this command on ubuntu forums, worked very well with me:

Run:

LC_MESSAGES=C dpkg-divert --list '*nvidia-340*' | sed -nre 's/^diversion of (.*) to .*/\1/p' | xargs -rd'\n' -n1 -- sudo dpkg-divert --remove
sudo apt --fix-broken install

The first command will remove all the diverted packages from nvidia-340. If you have other nvidia version "diverting" change it; read the error code to know which version is diverting.

Source: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2388026&p=13761809#post13761809 kudos to stutteringp0et2 :)

David Foerster
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Lucas Serafim
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Here is the full answer in another forum

The basic premise of the answer is:

  1. you have old dependencies you want to remove
  2. you want to clean mess
  3. you want to install new driver

I assume you have cr*p from the 340 driver installed - which was my problem

  1. remove old dependencies

    LC_MESSAGES=C dpkg-divert --list '*nvidia-340*' | sed -nre 's/^diversion of (.*) to .*/\1/p' | xargs -rd'\n' -n1 -- sudo dpkg-divert --remove

  2. clean mess - depended on mess you have installed find it out if not work out of the box ;)

    sudo dpkg --force-all -P nvidia-390 nvidia-compute-utils-390 nvidia-dkms-390 nvidia-prime nvidia-settings nvidia-opencl-icd-340 nvidia-opencl-icd-384 nvidia-kernel-source-390 nvidia-kernel-common-390 libnvidia-cfg1-390 libnvidia-common-390 libnvidia-compute-390 libnvidia-decode-390 libnvidia-encode-390  libnvidia-fbc1-390 libnvidia-ifr1-390
sudo apt purge --autoremove '*nvidia*'
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

  3. install new recommended drivers

    ubuntu-drivers devices
nvidia-settings

My advice is:
do not play with settings in this cr*ppy drivers just for checking if installed :)

David Foerster
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Jake Grabowski
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I solved the problem by removing nvidia-340's divert. hopefully I don't need to use nvidia-340. Following is an example:

dpkg-divert --package nvidia-340 --remove /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1

You can keep on removing whenever you have a conflict.

WinEunuuchs2Unix
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youbaji
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Run this first,

Solution #for FILE in $(dpkg-divert --list | grep nvidia-340 | awk '{print $3}'); do dpkg-divert --remove $FILE; done

Then install it from ppa,

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa 
sudo apt update 
sudo apt install nvidia-390

this worked for me on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Vishwaprabhakar Singh
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I would run apt auto-clean and see if its what I think it is, a messed up package.

sudo apt auto-clean
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-390 libvulkan1

edit: to answer your other question, when I installed 18.04 the other day 390 worked fine, but going to 396 was a bit "fun". This fixed it for me.

Andrew Schott
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as per: https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/problem-with-apt-and-nvidia-440-on-ubuntu-20-04/115281/4

It worked for me to 'fix' the broken deb (you can get the broken deb name if you run the update from the commandline eg. with aptitude)

sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/libnvidia-extra-455_455.45.01-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb

After that, you can continue to fix other broken installs or just upgrade normally again

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