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When I use System Settings-Additional drivers- and try to activate; NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernal module and VDPAU library,

I get this message; SystemError:Unable to correct problems,you have held broken packages.

Is there anyway to fix this? Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

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Use this answer to completely remove nvidia drivers from your system.

Then, reboot the system and when you login to your Desktop Environment, open a terminal (open the terminal with CTRL+ALT+T) and issue the following commands (one by one - copy paste them from here to your terminal).

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-173 
sudo nvidia-xconfig

If above procedure goes well, without errors, then reboot once more and it should be fine.

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