Debian 7 linux commandline tells me to install an Nvidia package for my system with AMD graphics card

Operating Systems & Open Source Linux
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So I want to install Lightworks on my Debian 7 machine, and the commandline tells me that some packages are missing:

root@debian:/home/artur/Downloads# dpkg -i lwks-11.5.1-amd64.deb
Selecting previously unselected package lightworks.
(Reading database ... 168139 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking lightworks (from lwks-11.5.1-amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of lightworks:
lightworks depends on libc6 (>= 2.14); however:
Version of libc6:amd64 on system is 2.13-38+deb7u1.
lightworks depends on nvidia-cg-toolkit; however:
Package nvidia-cg-toolkit is not installed.
lightworks depends on libportaudiocpp0; however:
Package libportaudiocpp0 is not installed.

dpkg: error processing lightworks (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for fontconfig ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
lightworks

 

 

 

And it prompts me that I should install a package that is from nvidia: 'nvidia-cg-toolkit'

Wouldn't that break something? Can I use that on my system? I have an AMD graphics card. It's kinda strange. Espeacially because on the website of Lightworks they mention ATI support.

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Lightworks is an odd-ball project. You need to install the (no longer maintained) nvidia-cg-toolkit and GFX drivers, even on systems with other graphics cards, because otherwise you'll see playback in a small window like a small preview.

It's just one of those things, just like with the Darktable project, the developers apparently only have nVidia equipped systems, and are limited in their knowledge of linux graphics.

Not a big deal in my opinion. It's non-free, but it's open source nonetheless. nVidia has depreciated the cg-toolkit (it's a shader authoring tool), and has made the code available to developers, whilst still maintaining the rights to the software, so it's open source, but not free and open source.

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Thanks a bunch Zoltan. With GFX drivers I guess you mean the AMD proprietary drivers. I have already installed them, since I couldn't make gnome 3 work otherwise.