Bug Description

SRU Request:

[Impact]

fglrx cannot be installed correctly together with the new lts stacks.

[Test case]

Installing the xserver from lts-utopic will prevent the current fglrx from being installed. The new fglrx will install correctly

[Regression potential]

Low. This fglrx release is already in use in 15.04 without any major issues.

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Activity: Install fglrx AMD driver on 12.04.5 and 14.02.2

Expected behavior: fglrx would intall

Observed behavior: fglrx is not installed as follows

Attempt to install fglrx fails as follows:

zack3@ ZACK3:~ $ sudo apt-get install fglrx-updates xvba-va-driver

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:

fglrx- updates : 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

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

Attempt to insatll xorg-video-abi-15 yields:

zack3@ ZACK3:~ $ sudo apt-get install xorg-video-abi-15

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

Note, selecting 'xserver-xorg-core' instead of 'xorg-video-abi-15'

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:

libcheese- gtk23 : Depends: libclutter- gtk-1.0- 0 (>= 0.91.8) but it is not going to be installed

Depends: libcogl15 (>= 1.15.8) but it is not going to be installed

libcheese7 : Depends: libclutter- gst-2.0- 0 (>= 0.10.0) but it is not going to be installed

Depends: gstreamer1. 0-clutter but it is not going to be installed

libclutter- 1.0-0 : Depends: libcogl-pango15 (>= 1.15.8) but it is not going to be installed

Depends: libcogl15 (>= 1.15.8) but it is not going to be installed

E: Error, pkgProblemResol ver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

Attempting to install xserver-xorg-core instead yields:

zack3@ ZACK3:~ $ sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-core

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:

libcheese- gtk23 : Depends: libclutter- gtk-1.0- 0 (>= 0.91.8) but it is not going to be installed

Depends: libcogl15 (>= 1.15.8) but it is not going to be installed

libcheese7 : Depends: libclutter- gst-2.0- 0 (>= 0.10.0) but it is not going to be installed

Depends: gstreamer1. 0-clutter but it is not going to be installed

libclutter- 1.0-0 : Depends: libcogl-pango15 (>= 1.15.8) but it is not going to be installed

Depends: libcogl15 (>= 1.15.8) but it is not going to be installed

E: Error, pkgProblemResol ver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.