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 Hi!
Today an update of nvidia driver but it fails, the following message is shown:

Error: Installation has failed.
If you'd like to file a bug report please include '/var/log/nala/dpkg-debug.log'

Error: nvidia-kernel-dkms: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you requested:
 nvidia-driver depends on nvidia-kernel-dkms (= 525.85.12-1) | nvidia-kernel-525.85.12 | nvidia-open-kernel-525.85.12 | nvidia-open-kernel-525.85.12; however:
  Package nvidia-kernel-dkms is to be removed.
  Package nvidia-kernel-525.85.12 is not installed.
  Package nvidia-open-kernel-525.85.12 is not installed.
  Package nvidia-open-kernel-525.85.12 is not installed.

Error: dependency problems prevent configuration of nvidia-driver:

Error: dependency problems prevent configuration of nvidia-driver:
 nvidia-driver depends on nvidia-kernel-dkms (= 525.85.12-1) | nvidia-kernel-525.85.12 | nvidia-open-kernel-525.85.12 | nvidia-open-kernel-525.85.12; however:
 nvidia-driver depends on nvidia-kernel-dkms (= 525.85.12-1) | nvidia-kernel-525.85.12 | nvidia-open-kernel-525.85.12 | nvidia-open-kernel-525.85.12; however:
  Package nvidia-kernel-dkms is not installed.
  Package nvidia-kernel-dkms is not installed.
  Package nvidia-kernel-525.85.12 is not installed.
  Package nvidia-kernel-525.85.12 is not installed.
  Package nvidia-open-kernel-525.85.12 is not installed.
  Package nvidia-open-kernel-525.85.12 is not installed.
  Package nvidia-open-kernel-525.85.12 is not installed.
  Package nvidia-open-kernel-525.85.12 is not installed.

Error: error processing package nvidia-driver (--configure):

Error: error processing package nvidia-driver (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up libnvidia-rtcore:amd64 (525.85.12-1) ...
Setting up libnvidia-rtcore:amd64 (525.85.12-1) ...

Errors were encountered while processing:
 nvidia-driver


I used Timeshift to roll back.

Please help me with this if you can.

Hi Led.
Looks like non-free firmware has moved to its archive as per https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1030981#10

More explanation here for the future : https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#archive-areas

Add non-free-firmware to sources.list, sudo apt update, and check for the changelog to make sure nvidia-kernel-dkms is not being held

Something like :
deb https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free
deb-src https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free
to :
deb https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb-src https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware