I was able to resolve this by forcing overwrite when installing the two
packages (note the order does matter). Given the destructive possibility
of this command, I took a backup of the VM prior to proceeding.
$ sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite
/var/cache/apt/archives/libpython3.12-stdlib_3.12.
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ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: libdrm2 2.4.39-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
.proc.driver.nvidia.gpus.
The following packages will be upgraded:
libdrm2
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/26.5 kB of archives.
After this operation, 4,096 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
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Vitaliy Kulikov thank you, it worked. Now to fix everything else
upgrading from 12.04 to 12.10 broke >:(
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Title:
package libdrm2 2.4.39-0ubuntu1
