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I tried to remove all wrong nvidia drivers through: apt-get remove nvidia*

However, when I now try to install any package it tells me: 

Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies: glx-alternative-nvidia : Depends: glx-diversions (= 0.8.0) E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

then using --fix-broken:

apt-get --fix-broken install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libcublas8.0 libcudart8.0 libcufft8.0 libcufftw8.0 libcurand8.0 libcusolver8.0 libcusparse8.0 libnppc8.0 libnppi8.0 libnppial8.0 libnppicc8.0 libnppicom8.0 libnppidei8.0 libnppif8.0 libnppig8.0 libnppim8.0 libnppist8.0 libnppisu8.0 libnppitc8.0 libnpps8.0 libnvblas8.0 libnvgraph8.0 libnvidia-compiler libnvidia-fatbinaryloader libnvidia-fatbinaryloader:i386 libnvidia-ptxjitcompiler libnvidia-ptxjitcompiler:i386 libnvrtc8.0 libnvtoolsext1 libnvvm3 libopengl0:i386 libthrust-dev libvdpau-dev Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 3 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/10.5 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of glx-alternative-nvidia: glx-alternative-nvidia depends on glx-diversions (= 0.8.0); however: Package glx-diversions is not installed. dpkg: error processing package glx-alternative-nvidia (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of nvidia-alternative: nvidia-alternative depends on glx-alternative-nvidia (>= 0.7); however: Package glx-alternative-nvidia is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package nvidia-alternative (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: glx-alternative-nvidia nvidia-alternative E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

when I try removing the packages:

apt-get remove glx-alternative-nvidia Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies: nvidia-alternative : Depends: glx-alternative-nvidia (>= 0.7) E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

sources.list:

cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free deb-src http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free #deb http://repo.xplico.org/ kali-rolling main

DPKG --configure -a && apt update:

root@Anonymous:~# dpkg --configure -a dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of glx-alternative-nvidia: glx-alternative-nvidia depends on glx-diversions (= 0.8.0); however: Package glx-diversions is not installed. dpkg: error processing package glx-alternative-nvidia (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of nvidia-alternative: nvidia-alternative depends on glx-alternative-nvidia (>= 0.7); however: Package glx-alternative-nvidia is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package nvidia-alternative (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: glx-alternative-nvidia nvidia-alternative root@Anonymous:~# apt update Ign:1 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease Hit:2 http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable InRelease Hit:3 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable Release Hit:4 https://deb.nodesource.com/node_8.x jessie InRelease Hit:6 http://ftp2.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/kali kali-rolling InRelease Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done All packages are up to date. root@Anonymous:~#

cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*:

cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/* ### THIS FILE IS AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURED ### # You may comment out this entry, but any other modifications may be lost. deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main deb https://deb.nodesource.com/node_8.x jessie main deb-src https://deb.nodesource.com/node_8.x jessie main ### THIS FILE IS AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURED ### # You may comment out this entry, but any other modifications may be lost. deb [arch=amd64] http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable main

dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq nvidia-alternative:

dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq nvidia-alternative dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of nvidia-alternative: nvidia-driver-bin depends on nvidia-alternative (= 375.82-7). libgles-nvidia1:i386 depends on nvidia-alternative (= 375.82-7). libgles-nvidia1:amd64 depends on nvidia-alternative (= 375.82-7). libnvidia-ml1:i386 depends on nvidia-alternative (= 375.82-7). libnvidia-ml1:amd64 depends on nvidia-alternative (= 375.82-7). libgles1-glvnd-nvidia:i386 depends on nvidia-alternative (= 375.82-7). libgles1-glvnd-nvidia:amd64 depends on nvidia-alternative (= 375.82-7). libnvidia-cfg1:i386 depends on nvidia-alternative (= 375.82-7). libnvidia-cfg1:amd64 depends on nvidia-alternative (= 375.82-7). libgles-nvidia2:amd64 depends on nvidia-alternative (= 375.82-7). libgles-nvidia2:i386 depends on nvidia-alternative (= 375.82-7). libegl-nvidia0:i386 depends on nvidia-alternative (= 375.82-7). nvidia-vdpau-driver:amd64 depends on nvidia-alternative (= 375.82-7). nvidia-settings depends on nvidia-alternative. libglx-nvidia0:i386 depends on nvidia-alternative (= 375.82-7). libglx-nvidia0:amd64 depends on nvidia-alternative (= 375.82-7). dpkg: error processing package nvidia-alternative (--remove): dependency problems - not removing Errors were encountered while processing: nvidia-alternative

ls /var/lib/dpkg/status:

root@Anonymous:~# ls /var/lib/dpkg/status* /var/lib/dpkg/status /var/lib/dpkg/status-old

dpkg --configure -a:

root@Anonymous:~# cp /var/lib/dpkg/status-old /var/lib/dpkg/status root@Anonymous:~# dpkg --configure -a root@Anonymous:~# apt update Get:1 http://ftp2.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/kali kali-rolling InRelease [30.5 kB] Get:2 http://ftp2.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/kali kali-rolling/main Sources [11.5 MB] Get:3 http://ftp2.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/kali kali-rolling/main i386 Packages [15.3 MB] Get:4 http://ftp2.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 Packages [15.4 MB] Fetched 42.3 MB in 13s (3,250 kB/s) Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 14 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them. root@Anonymous:~# apt upgrade -y && apt dist-upgrade -y Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies: E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

from post 'dpkg: error: cannot remove architecture 'i386' currently in use by the database':

apt-get remove --purge `dpkg --get-selections | grep i386 | awk '{print $1}'` Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies: glx-alternative-nvidia : Depends: glx-diversions (= 0.8.0) lib32gcc1 : Depends: libc6-i386 (>= 2.2.4) but it is not going to be installed lib32ncurses5 : Depends: libc6-i386 (>= 2.4) but it is not going to be installed lib32stdc++6 : Depends: libc6-i386 (>= 2.18) but it is not going to be installed lib32tinfo5 : Depends: libc6-i386 (>= 2.16) but it is not going to be installed lib32z1 : Depends: libc6-i386 (>= 2.4) but it is not going to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
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    What is the output of cat /etc/apt/sources.list ? Commented Nov 2, 2017 at 18:59
  • @GAD3R I updated my post with the output Commented Nov 2, 2017 at 19:01
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    dpkg --configure -a then apt update did you get an error? Commented Nov 2, 2017 at 19:08
  • Yup, same error, also updated post Commented Nov 2, 2017 at 19:10
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    please add the output of cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/* Commented Nov 2, 2017 at 19:11

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Remove the NVIDIA-related .list files under /etc/apt/sources.list.d/. It will break your system later.

Then run:

mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/glx-alternative-nvidia.* /tmp/ mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/nvidia-alternative.* /tmp/ dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq nvidia-alternative dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq glx-alternative-nvidia dpkg --configure -a apt update apt upgrade apt dist-upgrade
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  • failing at --force-remove-reinstreq nvidia-alternative (i will update post) Commented Nov 2, 2017 at 19:44
  • same results.. Its a nasty one :\ Commented Nov 2, 2017 at 19:55
  • Updated with results Commented Nov 2, 2017 at 20:14
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    @NickProzee cp /var/lib/dpkg/status-old /var/lib/dpkg/status then run the command from dpkg --configure -a Commented Nov 2, 2017 at 20:16
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    dpkg --remove-architecture i386 then dpkg --configure -a and apt clean && apt autoremove && apt update && apt upgrade && apt dist-upgrade Commented Nov 2, 2017 at 20:28
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just 

sudo dpkg -r glx-alternative-nvidia sudo dpkg -r nvidia-alternative
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