Bug#632742: dpkg-divert: error: rename involves overwriting `/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so'

Tue Jul 5 16:35:06 UTC 2011

On 2011-07-05 17:51, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> Package: libglx-nvidia-alternatives
> Version: 270.41.19-1

> This is during an aptitude upgrade:

What packages were you upgrading and from what version to which version?
/var/log/apt/term.log should have a full transcript.

> Preconfiguring packages ...
> dpkg: libglx-nvidia-alternatives: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you requested:
>  nvidia-glx depends on libglx-nvidia-alternatives.
> (Reading database ... 364294 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing libglx-nvidia-alternatives ...
...

Why was libglx-nvidia-alternatives being removed?

> I removed /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so (which was a
> symlink in to /etc/alternatives), then the error went away.

Thats OK.

Andreas