Comment 2 for bug 1092259

Hi there

If anyone wants to work around this while waiting on the fix, as I needed to do, this is how I did it. What you would do is download the attached patches file to a folder that you create and run the set of commands below. Run the commands one by one in case something doesn't work.

Note the patches are not complete; they are only for a very specific proble - you need to edit them if e.g. you are using nvidia-experimental-304.
Also, take care. If things are different on your system it may not work.

Regardses
Damien

sudo apt-get install build-essential fakeroot dpkg-dev ubuntu-dev-tools #possibly the last one is unnecessary

mkdir nvidia_cuda_fix #where we will be working

cd nvidia_cuda_fix #download the patch files to here - patches_cuda_work_with_310_1210.tar.gz

apt-get source nvidia-cuda-toolkit #get the source for the package - you will build it - this is the source with all the additional ubuntu/debian bits

tar -xvzvf patches_cuda_work_with_310_1210.tar.gz #unzip the patches I have provided in the attachment and which you downloaded

patch nvidia-cuda-toolkit_4.2.9-1ubuntu1.dsc nvidia-cuda-toolkit_4.2.9-1ubuntu1.dsc.patch.20121220 #adds nvidia-experimental-310 to list of dependencies

dpkg-source -x nvidia-cuda-toolkit_4.2.9-1ubuntu1.dsc # I am not sure what this does exactly... - extracts the source package - I think actually this is already done by apt-get, but anyway

cd nvidia-cuda-toolkit-4.2.9/ #go to where things are going to be built

patch debian/control ../control.patch.20121220 #adds nvidia-experimental-310 to list of dependencies

dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b #compile the stuff we are going to install

cd .. #it has put the deb files in the parent dir (our working dir)

sudo apt-get install gcc-4.4 g++-4.4 libthrust-dev opencl-headers # some random dependencies of the built packages - you may need more here and rerun the below line untill things work if dependencies weren't satisfied on your system

sudo dpkg --install *deb # install it and see it break