Generic installation instructions fail for ubuntu 24.04

[wincooter]

I did the following

1. curl -fsSL https://nvidia.github.io/libnvidia-container/gpgkey | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/nvidia-container-toolkit-keyring.gpg
   && curl -s -L https://nvidia.github.io/libnvidia-container/stable/deb/nvidia-container-toolkit.list |
   sed 's#deb https://#deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/nvidia-container-toolkit-keyring.gpg] https://#g' |
   sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nvidia-container-toolkit.list

2)sudo apt-get update

3)NVIDIA_CONTAINER_TOOLKIT_VERSION=1.17.8-1
sudo apt-get install -y
nvidia-container-toolkit=${NVIDIA_CONTAINER_TOOLKIT_VERSION}
nvidia-container-toolkit-base=${NVIDIA_CONTAINER_TOOLKIT_VERSION}
libnvidia-container-tools=${NVIDIA_CONTAINER_TOOLKIT_VERSION}
libnvidia-container1=${NVIDIA_CONTAINER_TOOLKIT_VERSION}

but when running #3 the following output was received

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package libnvidia-container1 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

Package libnvidia-container-tools is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

Package nvidia-container-toolkit is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

Package nvidia-container-toolkit-base is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Version '' for 'nvidia-container-toolkit' was not found
E: Version '' for 'nvidia-container-toolkit-base' was not found
E: Version '' for 'libnvidia-container-tools' was not found
E: Version '' for 'libnvidia-container1' was not found

[alnI3S]

Hi @wincooter ,

I have the same issue but it seems that nvidia-ctk --version gives the right version NVIDIA Container Toolkit CLI version 1.17.8. So it is installed anyway.

[harunalperentoktas]

I have the same issue, what is the solution?

[elezar]

Thanks for reporting this. I have just noticed that we would need to split the lines to allow for a proper evaluation of the envvar that we set in the install command:

export NVIDIA_CONTAINER_TOOLKIT_VERSION=1.17.8-1
sudo apt-get install -y \
      nvidia-container-toolkit=${NVIDIA_CONTAINER_TOOLKIT_VERSION} \
      nvidia-container-toolkit-base=${NVIDIA_CONTAINER_TOOLKIT_VERSION} \
      libnvidia-container-tools=${NVIDIA_CONTAINER_TOOLKIT_VERSION} \
      libnvidia-container1=${NVIDIA_CONTAINER_TOOLKIT_VERSION}

we will update our installation documentation.

[elezar]

I have created NVIDIA/cloud-native-docs#193 to fix the documentation.