Unable to install 1.2 on Ubuntu 16.04

[VadimP]

Despite rebooting many times, all I get is this:


Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing DisplayLink Linux Driver 1.2.58 100%
DisplayLink Linux Software 1.2.58 install script called: install
Distribution discovered: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
WARNING: Version 1.1.61 of EVDI kernel module is already running.
Please reboot before attempting to re-install DisplayLink Linux Software.
Installation terminated.

[mlukaszek]

Have you uninstalled the previous version with sudo displaylink-installer uninstall first?

Cheers,
Michal

[mlukaszek]

> running the uninstaller and having it miserably fail

How did it fail?

> still won't fix anything

Attach logs so we know what we're dealing with (so far we don't even know what you're connecting).
http://support.displaylink.com/knowledgebase/articles/757047-how-can-i-report-ubuntu-issues-to-displaylink

Cheers,
Michal

[AlbanRampon]

I've had enough and I've now banned DNB. If John can't behave professionally on a public forum, I don't have to tolerate that either! Nobody is paid to be insulted.

[VadimP]

Have you uninstalled the previous version with sudo displaylink-installer uninstall first?

Cheers,
Michal

Thanks, that worked. I didn't notice those instructions anywhere.

[astroman3001gt]

Hi,

Sorry, I did not check this post. I open a new one since I still have the problem:



I was trying to reinstall the driver on my system after a distribution upgrade (ubuntu 15.10 -> 16.04.1).

I have the following WARNING and I guess I am stuck with the previous instalation:

DisplayLink$ sudo ./displaylink-driver-1.2.58.run
[sudo] password for ------:
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing DisplayLink Linux Driver 1.2.58 100%
DisplayLink Linux Software 1.2.58 install script called: install
Distribution discovered: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
WARNING: Version 1.0.68 of EVDI kernel module is already running.
Please reboot before attempting to re-install DisplayLink Linux Software.
Installation terminated.

Any idea on how I can remove the previous version? I tried to use the uninstall provided by this version, but it keep stating the same message.

Note: I did not uninstall the previous version with

sudo displaylink-installer uninstall

I don't have the file anywhere since I did the uninstall...

Thanks in advance

[astroman3001gt]

It seems that I was able to fix this myself.
I used the previous version available to perform the uninstall:

sudo ./displaylink-driver-1.0.335.run uninstall

Then reboot and install the latest version.

sudo ./displaylink-driver-1.2.58.run


So far so good.

[Robert_29]

The command "sudo displaylink-installer uninstall" worked to enable installation. You should put it into the installation script with a prompt y/n