OK, I'm not sure if others still have the problem but I sudo'ed upgrade, update, are on the LT 10.04 and this is the result from installing the ATI driver, still the same problem:
$ sudo apt-get install fglrx
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
ttf-lyx
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
fglrx-amdcccle
The following NEW packages will be installed:
fglrx fglrx-amdcccle
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 51 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/23.3MB of archives.
After this operation, 69.2MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 168181 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking fglrx (from .../fglrx_2%3a8.723.1-0ubuntu4_i386.deb) ...
[Warning] Uninstall : inst_path_default or inst_path_override
does not exist in /etc/ati. This suggests that the ATI driver
is not installed, the ATI driver is only partially installed,
or the current ATI driver installed is an older version than the
one this script was designed for. Both files listed above are
required for determining where installed files are located.
To force uninstallation of the driver by guessing where the
uninstallation files are located, set the FORCE_ATI_UNINSTALL
environment variable and re-run /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh (this is not recommended).
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/fglrx_2%3a8.723.1-0ubuntu4_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Selecting previously deselected package fglrx-amdcccle.
Unpacking fglrx-amdcccle (from .../fglrx-amdcccle_2%3a8.723.1-0ubuntu4_i386.deb) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/fglrx_2%3a8.723.1-0ubuntu4_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
OK, I'm not sure if others still have the problem but I sudo'ed upgrade, update, are on the LT 10.04 and this is the result from installing the ATI driver, still the same problem:
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$ sudo apt-get install fglrx 2%3a8.723. 1-0ubuntu4_ i386.deb) ...
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
ttf-lyx
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
fglrx-amdcccle
The following NEW packages will be installed:
fglrx fglrx-amdcccle
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 51 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/23.3MB of archives.
After this operation, 69.2MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 168181 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking fglrx (from .../fglrx_
[Warning] Uninstall : inst_path_default or inst_path_override ati/fglrx- uninstall. sh (this is not recommended).
does not exist in /etc/ati. This suggests that the ATI driver
is not installed, the ATI driver is only partially installed,
or the current ATI driver installed is an older version than the
one this script was designed for. Both files listed above are
required for determining where installed files are located.
To force uninstallation of the driver by guessing where the
uninstallation files are located, set the FORCE_ATI_UNINSTALL
environment variable and re-run /usr/share/
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/ apt/archives/ fglrx_2% 3a8.723. 1-0ubuntu4_ i386.deb (--unpack): amdcccle_ 2%3a8.723. 1-0ubuntu4_ i386.deb) ... apt/archives/ fglrx_2% 3a8.723. 1-0ubuntu4_ i386.deb
subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Selecting previously deselected package fglrx-amdcccle.
Unpacking fglrx-amdcccle (from .../fglrx-
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)