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["Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Is this list a sensible place for this question?  If not, I'll go quietly,
but I've been having trouble getting help on it and thought there would be
expertise here.

I've got an old Dell laptop with nVidia on the mobo.  I use the proprietary
304 driver for a non-profit, where it's ability to probe monitor
capabilities lets me triage donated monitors.

I installed 18.04.1 LTS (bionic beaver) and I'm having trouble getting that
driver on.  It worked fine (and still does) in 16.04.5 (xenial) and I'm
very happy I didn't mess with the  xenial partition, but I know it's
heading to "end of life"...

The problem shows up when I do
     apt-get --assume-yes --quiet install nvidia-304
which I do in a script (and under script(1)) so that I can capture what
happens when it reports

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:
 nvidia-304 : 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 but it is not installable or
                       xorg-video-abi-18 but it is not installable or
                       xorg-video-abi-19 but it is not installable or
                       xorg-video-abi-20 but it is not installable or
                       xorg-video-abi-23
              Depends: xserver-xorg-core but it is not going to be installed
              Recommends: nvidia-settings (>= 331.20) but it is not going
to be installed
              Recommends: libcuda1-304 but it is not going to be installed
              Recommends: nvidia-opencl-icd-304 but it is not going to be
installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I note that xenial does not seem to have "xorg-video-abi" packages, but
does have "xserver-xorg-core" installed.  Bionic does not seem to have
either one.

Is there any way to get the prerequisites in Bionic?

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Kevin O'Gorman
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