On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
On 2010-09-07 11:12, Ariel wrote:
I have the same trouble with nvidia-glx. I had both nvidia-glx and
nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx installed (due to upgrading my video card), and
now I can't purge nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx.
How did you manage to install both? They should have been conflicting
forever.
What "problematic" versions do you currently have installed?
Russ Allbery figured it out (I think). I uninstalled
nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx, but did not purge it. Then installed nvidia-glx
and then nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx, I'm not certain exactly how but I ended
up with both, and I was housecleaning and tried to remove
nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx because I don't need it anymore.
I have nvidia-glx 190.53-4, and a removed, but not purged, version of
nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx.
A new version of nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx will not help me, how do I
purge the package? Should I manually edit the postrm script?
Can you try to purge nvidia-glx first and reinstall it (using the
current version) later after you got rid of nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx?
I can't install the current version of nvidia-glx because it depends on a
more recent dpkg, and I can't update dpkg because of a VERY long chain of
depends that include openoffice, python, and kde. And I don't want to
update kde till squeeze is released.
After fixing your nvidia setup you may want to reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx
and libgl1-mesa-dev (if you had them installed), because messing with
the diversions might have lost/corrupted the original files.
I did reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx, but I couldn't reinstall nvidia-glx
because I don't have a deb for it, but I did run debsums to verify the
checksums and everything seems OK.
-Ariel
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