Manuel Bilderbeek <[email protected]> writes: > Yes, but I already have that package installed...
> $ apt-cache policy libgl1-mesa-dev > libgl1-mesa-dev: > Installed: 7.7.1-4 > So, I tried to aptitude reinstall it. > Processing triggers for libgl1-nvidia-alternatives ... > update-alternatives: warning: forcing reinstallation of alternative > /usr/lib/nvidia/diversions/libGL.so because link group libGL.so is broken. > That doesn't look too good. No, that's normal; that's just update-alternatives realizing that there was supposed to be a link there but it didn't exist. > Checking: Yup, everything looks fine now. > But how did it become broken!? (I've never messed around with things > outside of normal aptitude.) I'm not sure, but the old packages had a *lot* of cruft, and we may not be handling all the upgrade paths. There were stray symlinks managed by various maintainer scripts and all sorts of other issues that the postinst tries to clean up from. I'd like to know how it broke, but unfortunately without a transcript of the upgrade during which it broke, it's probably going to be difficult to track down. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
