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I am trying to install nvidia driver 460 on my Ubuntu 20.04 laptop, but I am getting the error below.

Could anybody help me with troubleshooting it? I purged the drivers and tried different versions but I am always ending up with this error (I need at least version 418 because it's the minimum requirement for handbrake's GPU support).

user@pc:~$ sudo apt install nvidia-driver-460
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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
nvidia-driver-460 is already the newest version (460.39-0ubuntu0.20.04.1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
6 not fully installed or removed.
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dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libglx-mesa0:i386:
 libglx-mesa0:i386 depends on libgl1-mesa-dri; however:
  Package libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package libglx-mesa0:i386 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libglx0:i386: libglx0:i386 depends on libglx-mesa0; however: Package libglx-mesa0:i386 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package libglx0:i386 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libgl1:i386: libgl1:i386 depends on libglx0 (= 1.3.2-1~ubuntu0.20.04.1); however: Package libglx0:i386 is not configured yet.

No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure. No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup er ror from a previous failure. No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure. No apport report written because MaxReports is rea ched already dpkg: error processing package libgl1:i386 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libnvidia-ifr1-460:i386: libnvidia-ifr1-460:i386 depends on libgl1; however: Package libgl1:i386 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package libnvidia-ifr1-460:i386 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libnvidia-fbc1-460:i386: libnvidia-fbc1-460:i386 depends on libgl1; however: Package libgl1:i386 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package libnvidia-fbc1-460:i386 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already Errors were encountered while processing: libglx-mesa0:i386 libglx0:i386 libgl1:i386 libnvidia-ifr1-460:i386 libnvidia-fbc1-460:i386 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Any help is greatly appreciated.

dakes
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I am not sure maybe it is because of kernel version. After recent kernel update I had also this kind of problem but downgrading to older kernel versions solved problem

Emil
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