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linux-restricted-modules-hwe-6.8 package

Unable to install linux-modules-nvidia-550-generic-hwe-22.04 due to unmet dependencies on Ubuntu 22.04

Asked by Marcos Soutullo

Hi,

I've been having trouble lately while updating the linux module nvidia drivers on my ubuntu 22 system

$sudo apt install linux-modules-nvidia-550-generic-hwe-22.04
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-550-6.8.0-55-generic : Depends: linux-image-6.8.0-55-generic but it is not installable or
                                                      linux-image-unsigned-6.8.0-55-generic but it is not installable
                                             Depends: linux-signatures-nvidia-6.8.0-55-generic (= 6.8.0-55.57~22.04.1+1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

$ uname -a ─╯
6.8.0-52-generic #53~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Jan 15 19:18:46 UTC 2 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ cat /etc/lsb-release ─╯
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=22.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=jammy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS"

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list | grep -v '^#' ─╯

deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy main restricted
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-updates main restricted
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy universe
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-updates universe
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy multiverse
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-updates multiverse
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security multiverse

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Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131) said : 		#1

For some reason, it doesn't look like they ever published 6.8.0-55 (or -53 or -54) in the regular repos, but they just stayed in the proposed repo.
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-hwe-6.8/+publishinghistory

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