[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#504585: nvidia-glx conflicts with xserver-xorg-core

[Alexander Kurtz]

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Package: nvidia-glx
Version: 173.14.09-5
Severity: important


With a sources.list like this:


debian:/home/alexander# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free  
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free


nvidia-glx conflicts with xserver-xorg-core.


Trying to install nvidia-glx results in the following:


debian:/home/alexander# LANG=en_US.UTF-8 apt-get install nvidia-glx
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
  xfonts-75dpi xfonts-scalable xfonts-100dpi xorg-docs
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
Suggested packages:
  nvidia-settings
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  xorg xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all
xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-kbd xserver-xorg-input-mouse
  xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-wacom
xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark
xserver-xorg-video-ati
  xserver-xorg-video-chips xserver-xorg-video-cirrus
xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-i128
xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-mach64
  xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-neomagic
xserver-xorg-video-nv xserver-xorg-video-openchrome
xserver-xorg-video-r128 xserver-xorg-video-radeon
  xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd xserver-xorg-video-rendition
xserver-xorg-video-s3 xserver-xorg-video-s3virge
xserver-xorg-video-savage
  xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion xserver-xorg-video-sis
xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx
xserver-xorg-video-trident
  xserver-xorg-video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-v4l
xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vmware
xserver-xorg-video-voodoo
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  nvidia-glx
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 40 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 9216kB of archives.
After this operation, 11.6MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.


Manually installing with dpkg works fine:


debian:/home/alexander# LANG=en_US.UTF-8 dpkg --force-conflicts -i
nvidia-glx_177.80-1_amd64.deb
Selecting previously deselected package nvidia-glx.
dpkg: regarding nvidia-glx_177.80-1_amd64.deb containing nvidia-glx:
 xserver-xorg-core conflicts with xserver-xorg-video-2
  nvidia-glx provides xserver-xorg-video-2 and is to be installed.
dpkg: warning - ignoring conflict, may proceed anyway !
(Reading database ... 238860 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking nvidia-glx (from nvidia-glx_177.80-1_amd64.deb) ...
Setting up nvidia-glx (177.80-1) ...


but afterwards:


debian:/home/alexander# LANG=en_US.UTF8 apt-get install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  xserver-xorg-core: Conflicts: xserver-xorg-video-2
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.


 System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers experimental
  APT policy: (1000, 'experimental'), (1000, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages nvidia-glx depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.8+20080809-3    GNU C Library: Shared
libraries
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl 7.2-1             A free implementation of
the OpenG
ii  libx11-6               2:1.1.5-2         X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6               2:1.0.4-1         X11 miscellaneous
extension librar
ii  nvidia-kernel-2.6.26-1 177.80-1+2.6.26-9 NVIDIA binary kernel
module for Li
ii  x11-common             1:7.4~4           X Window System (X.Org)
infrastruc
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

nvidia-glx recommends no packages.

Versions of packages nvidia-glx suggests:
ii  nvidia-kernel-source          177.80-1   NVIDIA binary kernel
module source
pn  nvidia-settings               <none>     (no description available)
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