A100 Linux server ubuntu-driversu nmet dependencies:

Question

I am getting this error when i try to install Nvidia-driver for my A100 Linux server.

sudo ubuntu-drivers install

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... Done

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:

linux-modules-nvidia-550-azure : Depends: linux-modules-nvidia-550-6.5.0-1019-azure (= 6.5.0-1019.20~22.04.1+2) but it is not going to be installed

                              Depends: nvidia-kernel-common-550 (>= 550.67) but 550.54.15-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
```E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Answer 1

Thanks for posting your question in the Microsoft Q&A forum.

To resolve this issue, consider trying the following steps:

1. Run sudo apt update to update the package lists, and then run sudo apt upgrade to upgrade the installed packages to their latest versions.
2. Run sudo apt clean to clean the package cache.
3. Run sudo apt autoclean to remove any obsolete packages
4. Try installing the specific versions of the required dependencies manually using sudo apt install linux-modules-nvidia-550-6.5.0-1019-azure nvidia-kernel-common-550

• Check if there are any third-party repositories that might be causing conflicts with the official Ubuntu repositories.

As an alternative, you can try using the Nvidia installer script to install the drivers. download the appropriate driver package for your A100 GPU from the Nvidia website. run the installer script using sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-<version>.run.

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