E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[Member russellb23]

I am trying to get optimus to work through bumblebee. But in the first place, I am not able to install nvidia-driver. My error message is as follows:

>> sudo apt-get install nvidia-driver
[sudo] password for russellb: 
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:
 nvidia-driver : Depends: nvidia-driver-libs (= 390.87-2~bpo9+1~mx17+2) but it is not going to be installed or
                          nvidia-driver-libs-nonglvnd (= 390.87-2~bpo9+1~mx17+2) but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: nvidia-driver-bin (= 390.87-2~bpo9+1~mx17+2) but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: xserver-xorg-video-nvidia (= 390.87-2~bpo9+1~mx17+2) but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: nvidia-vdpau-driver (= 390.87-2~bpo9+1~mx17+2) but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: nvidia-alternative (= 390.87-2~bpo9+1~mx17+2)
                 Depends: nvidia-kernel-dkms (= 390.87-2~bpo9+1~mx17+2) or
                          nvidia-kernel-390.87
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I tried with sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-nvidia and it says the following:

>> sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-nvidia
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:
 xserver-xorg-video-nvidia : Depends: nvidia-alternative (= 390.87-2~bpo9+1~mx17+2)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I have tried to install like

sudo apt-get install primus bumblebee-nvidia

However, the story of holding broken packages

I don’t have any clue what is broken here. Could someone shed some light/help troubleshoot fix this?

Many thanks in advance.

• This topic was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by russellb23. Reason: added error log

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Try using the nvidia installer app in the control centre.

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