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[Peter-and-Crazybear <crazybear@xxxxxxxx>]

Things were working for me [after a very long fight - so complex I don't
even know what worked] in 12.04.5 until some weeks ago. Something
changed and now I can't get fglrx to work or to install/reinstall. What
is the situation with 12.04.5? Many of the 'It worked' above remarks
fail to mention which, and I assume it is always 14.04.2 I'm very
frustrated having been unable to use my OS for many weeks now [again].
What recently changed that could have caused the problem anew or new
problem? Short of removing the stack [don't know how and don't really
want to] how can I get fgrlx-updates or any fglrx on 12.04.5 I have a
MSI Radeon HD.7970. Will any new AMD driver work?

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Title:
  apt-get fails to install fglrx or fglrx-updates in 14.04.2 and 12.04.5

Status in fglrx:
  Invalid
Status in fglrx-installer package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in fglrx-installer-updates package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in fglrx-installer source package in Precise:
  In Progress
Status in fglrx-installer-updates source package in Precise:
  In Progress
Status in fglrx-installer source package in Trusty:
  Fix Released
Status in fglrx-installer-updates source package in Trusty:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  
  SRU Request:

  [Impact]
  fglrx cannot be installed correctly together with the new lts stacks.

  [Test case]
  Installing the xserver from lts-utopic will prevent the current fglrx from being installed. The new fglrx will install correctly

  [Regression potential]
  Low. This fglrx release is already in use in 15.04 without any major issues.

  
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  Activity:  Install fglrx AMD driver on 12.04.5 and 14.02.2

  Expected behavior:  fglrx would intall

  Observed behavior:  fglrx is not installed as follows

  Attempt to install fglrx fails as follows:

          zack3@ZACK3:~$ sudo apt-get install fglrx-updates xvba-va-driver
          Reading 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:
           fglrx-updates : Depends: xorg-video-abi-11 but it is not installable or
                                    xorg-video-abi-12 but it is not installable or
                                    xorg-video-abi-13 but it is not installable or
                                    xorg-video-abi-14 but it is not installable or
                                    xorg-video-abi-15
          E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

  Attempt to insatll xorg-video-abi-15 yields:

          zack3@ZACK3:~$ sudo apt-get install xorg-video-abi-15
          Reading package lists... Done
          Building dependency tree
          Reading state information... Done
          Note, selecting 'xserver-xorg-core' instead of 'xorg-video-abi-15'
          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:
           libcheese-gtk23 : Depends: libclutter-gtk-1.0-0 (>= 0.91.8) but it is not going to be installed
                             Depends: libcogl15 (>= 1.15.8) but it is not going to be installed
           libcheese7 : Depends: libclutter-gst-2.0-0 (>= 0.10.0) but it is not going to be installed
                        Depends: gstreamer1.0-clutter but it is not going to be installed
           libclutter-1.0-0 : Depends: libcogl-pango15 (>= 1.15.8) but it is not going to be installed
                              Depends: libcogl15 (>= 1.15.8) but it is not going to be installed
          E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

  Attempting to install xserver-xorg-core instead yields:

          zack3@ZACK3:~$ sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-core
          Reading 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:
           libcheese-gtk23 : Depends: libclutter-gtk-1.0-0 (>= 0.91.8) but it is not going to be installed
                             Depends: libcogl15 (>= 1.15.8) but it is not going to be installed
           libcheese7 : Depends: libclutter-gst-2.0-0 (>= 0.10.0) but it is not going to be installed
                        Depends: gstreamer1.0-clutter but it is not going to be installed
           libclutter-1.0-0 : Depends: libcogl-pango15 (>= 1.15.8) but it is not going to be installed
                              Depends: libcogl15 (>= 1.15.8) but it is not going to be installed
          E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

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