[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#557253: Conflict between nvidia-glx and xserver-xorg-core

[Ignace Mouzannar]

Hello,

I am facing the same problem when trying to install nvidia-glx: apt's
solution is to remove xorg* packages.

As Eric said, nvidia-glx conflicts with xserver-xorg-core as the first
one provides xserver-xorg-video-2 and the second conflicts with it.

My version of xserver-xorg-core is 2:1.6.5-1.

Here is the output of `dpkg -i` when I try to install nvidia-glx:
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tostrad:~/tmp$ wget -q
http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers/nvidia-glx_173.14.09-5_amd64.deb
&& sudo dpkg -i nvidia-glx_173.14.09-5_amd64.deb
dpkg: regarding nvidia-glx_173.14.09-5_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: error processing nvidia-glx_173.14.09-5_amd64.deb (--install):
 conflicting packages - not installing nvidia-glx
Errors were encountered while processing:
 nvidia-glx_173.14.09-5_amd64.deb
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I have attached an apt-get simulation of the installation.

Thank you for your consideration.

Kind regards,
 Ignace M

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (99, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-openvz-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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