[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#588590: Bug#588590: Conflicts with nvidia-glx

[Ariel]

On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Andreas Beckmann wrote:

> On 2010-09-07 11:12, Ariel wrote:
>>
>> I have the same trouble with nvidia-glx. I had both nvidia-glx and
>> nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx installed (due to upgrading my video card), and
>> now I can't purge nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx.
>
> How did you manage to install both? They should have been conflicting
> forever.
> What "problematic" versions do you currently have installed?

Russ Allbery figured it out (I think). I uninstalled 
nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx, but did not purge it. Then installed nvidia-glx 
and then nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx, I'm not certain exactly how but I ended 
up with both, and I was housecleaning and tried to remove 
nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx because I don't need it anymore.

I have nvidia-glx 190.53-4, and a removed, but not purged, version of 
nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx.

>> A new version of nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx will not help me, how do I
>> purge the package? Should I manually edit the postrm script?
>
> Can you try to purge nvidia-glx first and reinstall it (using the
> current version) later after you got rid of nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx?

I can't install the current version of nvidia-glx because it depends on a 
more recent dpkg, and I can't update dpkg because of a VERY long chain of 
depends that include openoffice, python, and kde. And I don't want to 
update kde till squeeze is released.

> After fixing your nvidia setup you may want to reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx
> and libgl1-mesa-dev (if you had them installed), because messing with
> the diversions might have lost/corrupted the original files.

I did reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx, but I couldn't reinstall nvidia-glx 
because I don't have a deb for it, but I did run debsums to verify the 
checksums and everything seems OK.

 	-Ariel