My Lubuntu system has recently started complaining that it cannot update software and is offering a Partial Upgrade - which I understand is bad news.
I suspect it is related to my Tensorflow installation (most of my problems are, and I fear changing it in any way !).
nvcc --version reports release 10.1, V10.1.243
nvidia-smi reports Driver Version: 440.64.00 CUDA Version: 10.2
cuDNN is version 7.6
Tensorflow is version 1.14.0
It appears that the update wants to remove the cuda and nvidia driver packages (I have appended the output from dist-upgrade). Please can someone explain what the root of the problem is here, and what I can do to move on (hopefully without totally destroying my working tensorflow installation).
sudo apt dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
cuda-command-line-tools-10-1 cuda-compiler-10-1 cuda-cufft-10-1 cuda-cufft-dev-10-1
cuda-cuobjdump-10-1 cuda-cupti-10-1 cuda-curand-10-1 cuda-curand-dev-10-1
cuda-cusolver-10-1 cuda-cusolver-dev-10-1 cuda-cusparse-10-1 cuda-cusparse-dev-10-1
cuda-documentation-10-1 cuda-gdb-10-1 cuda-gpu-library-advisor-10-1
cuda-libraries-10-1 cuda-libraries-dev-10-1 cuda-memcheck-10-1 cuda-misc-headers-10-1
cuda-npp-10-1 cuda-npp-dev-10-1 cuda-nsight-10-1 cuda-nsight-compute-10-1
cuda-nsight-systems-10-1 cuda-nvcc-10-1 cuda-nvdisasm-10-1 cuda-nvgraph-10-1
cuda-nvgraph-dev-10-1 cuda-nvjpeg-10-1 cuda-nvjpeg-dev-10-1 cuda-nvml-dev-10-1
cuda-nvprof-10-1 cuda-nvprune-10-1 cuda-nvrtc-10-1 cuda-nvrtc-dev-10-1 cuda-nvtx-10-1
cuda-nvvp-10-1 cuda-samples-10-1 cuda-sanitizer-api-10-1 cuda-toolkit-10-1
cuda-tools-10-1 cuda-visual-tools-10-1 libnvidia-cfg1-440 libnvidia-common-440
libnvidia-fbc1-440 libxnvctrl0 linux-headers-4.15.0-96 linux-headers-4.15.0-96-generic
linux-image-4.15.0-96-generic linux-modules-4.15.0-96-generic
linux-modules-extra-4.15.0-96-generic nsight-compute-2019.5.0 nsight-systems-2019.5.2
nvidia-compute-utils-440 nvidia-kernel-source-440 nvidia-modprobe nvidia-prime
nvidia-settings python-apt python-bs4 python-html5lib python-lxml python-webencodings
screen-resolution-extra xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-440
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED
cuda-10-1 cuda-demo-suite-10-1 cuda-drivers cuda-runtime-10-1 libnvidia-decode-440
libnvidia-encode-440 libnvidia-gl-440 libnvidia-ifr1-440 nvidia-dkms-440
nvidia-driver-440 nvidia-kernel-common-440 nvidia-utils-440
The following NEW packages will be installed
linux-headers-4.15.0-106 linux-headers-4.15.0-106-generic
linux-image-4.15.0-106-generic linux-modules-4.15.0-106-generic
linux-modules-extra-4.15.0-106-generic
The following packages will be upgraded:
aptdaemon aptdaemon-data ca-certificates chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra firefox
firefox-locale-en flashplugin-installer google-chrome-stable intel-microcode
libjpeg-turbo8 libjpeg-turbo8-dev libjson-c-dev libjson-c3 libnautilus-extension1a
libnetplan0 libnss-systemd libpam-systemd libpulse-mainloop-glib0 libpulse0
libpulsedsp libsqlite3-0 libsqlite3-dev libssl-dev libssl-doc libssl1.1 libsystemd0
libudev1 libxnvctrl0 linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic
linux-libc-dev linux-signed-generic netplan.io nodejs nplan nvidia-modprobe
nvidia-settings openssl pulseaudio pulseaudio-module-bluetooth pulseaudio-utils
python-apt python-apt-common python-rosdistro python-rosdistro-modules python3-apport
python3-apt python3-aptdaemon python3-aptdaemon.gtk3widgets python3-problem-report
python3-software-properties ros-melodic-actionlib ros-melodic-actionlib-msgs
ros-melodic-actionlib-tutorials ros-melodic-angles ros-melodic-bond
ros-melodic-bond-core ros-melodic-bondcpp ros-melodic-bondpy
ros-melodic-camera-calibration ros-melodic-camera-calibration-parsers
ros-melodic-camera-info-manager ros-melodic-catkin ros-melodic-class-loader
ros-melodic-cmake-modules ros-melodic-common-msgs ros-melodic-common-tutorials
ros-melodic-compressed-depth-image-transport ros-melodic-compressed-image-transport
ros-melodic-control-msgs ros-melodic-control-toolbox ros-melodic-controller-interface
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ros-melodic-cpp-common ros-melodic-cv-bridge ros-melodic-depth-image-proc
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ros-melodic-rqt-robot-monitor ros-melodic-rqt-robot-plugins
ros-melodic-rqt-robot-steering ros-melodic-rqt-runtime-monitor ros-melodic-rqt-rviz
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software-properties-gtk steam-launcher systemd systemd-coredump systemd-sysv
teamviewer udev xserver-common xserver-xorg-core
302 to upgrade, 5 to newly install, 12 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
Careful, the CUDA packages Nvidia supplied depend upon an obsolete Nvidia driver, probably 418. When you re-installed the 440 drivers, the 418 got removed and all dependencies got marked for removal -- that's all the cuda files. I'd immediately back-up the /usr/local/cuda-10.1 dir, which is an autoremove from disappearing. For an original CUDA install of the Nvidia supplied release (not the older one supplied in the standard repos), I'd suggest avoiding the package manager entirely by just unpacking the deb file (and the content deb files), not installing anything. For your situation (just like what I went through), I backed up the /usr/local/cuda-10.1 directory, ran the autoremove (which deleted the ...cuda-10.1), and restored the backed up files. Look at
and individually purge the cuda packages not in the "ii" state (all of them but 3). I am left with nvidia-cuda-dev, libcdart10.1, and cuda-repo-ubuntu1804-10-1-local-10.1.243-418.87.00. No more package manager complaints, and kernel updates will get the new Nvidia driver build automatically, as they should.