[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#426997: nvidia-glx-legacy-71xx: dpkg-divert conflict

[Jude Anthony]

Package: nvidia-glx-legacy-71xx
Severity: normal

I have similar problems, but my output indicates a conflict with a package
I don't have installed.  I even deleted libGL.so.1, but still get the
same error.

$ sudo aptitude install nvidia-glx-legacy-71xx
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information      
Initializing package states... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  nvidia-glx-legacy-71xx 
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 58 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/3042kB of archives. After unpacking 9859kB will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 237367 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking nvidia-glx-legacy-71xx (from .../nvidia-glx-legacy-71xx_71.86.07-1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg-divert: `diversion of /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 to /usr/lib/nvidia/libGL.so.1.xlibmesa by nvidia-glx-legacy-71xx' clashes with `diversion of /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 to /usr/lib/nvidia/libGL.so.1.xlibmesa by nvidia-glx'
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/nvidia-glx-legacy-71xx_71.86.07-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/nvidia-glx-legacy-71xx_71.86.07-1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Reading package lists... Done             
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information       
Initializing package states... Done


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages nvidia-glx-legacy-71xx depends on:
ii  libc6               2.9-24               GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [li 7.0.3-7              A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libx11-6            2:1.2.2-1            X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6            2:1.0.4-1            X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  nvidia-kernel-legac 71.86.07-1+2.6.26-17 NVIDIA binary kernel module for Li
ii  x11-common          1:7.3+19             X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc

nvidia-glx-legacy-71xx recommends no packages.

Versions of packages nvidia-glx-legacy-71xx suggests:
ii  nvidia-kernel-legacy-71xx-sou 71.86.07-1 NVIDIA binary kernel module source
pn  nvidia-settings               <none>     (no description available)