Bug#632674: Dependency problem nvidia-glx: depends:libgl1-nvidia-glx, (= 275-09-07-1)

[Jesse Towner]

> On 2011-07-04 20:47, David wrote:
> >  In debian testing, installed directrly from a week build from debian web, i
> >  have the next problem:
> >
> >  When i tried to install nvidia-glx with synaptic or apt-get in terminal, i have
> >  this error:
>
> New installation or update? New installations from testing might be a
> bit problematic at the moment, use the nvidia packages from unstable
> instead. (mesa with multiarch support already got into testing which is
> incompatible with the nvidia packages still in testing)
>
> >  nvidia-glx:
> >  Depends: libgl1-nvidia-glx (= 275.09.07-1)
>
> The full transcript from the failed apt-get usage in the terminal would
> have been useful.
>
> To check avilability of packages you can try
>
> apt-cache policy [pkg]...
>
> Andreas

I'm having the exact same problem with a new install from testing. I tried
following your advice with installing nvidia-glx and dependencies from
unstable, but it failed with a similar problem, I've included a log of the
apt-get output below.

I can't go back stable as the kernel in stable lacks support for my new
laptop's ethernic and wireless, which makes upgrading the kernel from
the repositories very difficult without network access. Kernel 2.6.39
finally has support for my devices, so I'm stuck with testing for now.

I could install the nvidia-glx drivers straight off of nVidia's website,
but I'm concerned I might run into problems later once these problems
are fixed and decide to reinstall the packages from the debian apt repository.

- Jesse

$ apt-cache policy nvidia-glx
nvidia-glx:
   Installed: (none)
   Candidate: 275.09.07-1
   Version table:
      275.09.07-5 0
         600 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/non-free amd64 Packages
      275.09.07-1 0
         650 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/non-free amd64 Packages
         650 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing/non-free amd64 Packages

$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  nvidia-glx : Depends: libgl1-nvidia-glx (= 275.09.07-1)
E: Broken packages

$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx/unstable
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Selected version '275.09.07-5' (Debian:unstable [amd64]) for 'nvidia-glx'
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  nvidia-glx : Depends: libgl1-nvidia-glx (= 275.09.07-5)
               Depends: xserver-xorg-video-nvidia (= 275.09.07-5) but it is not going to be installed
               Depends: nvidia-vdpau-driver (= 275.09.07-5) but 275.09.07-1 is to be installed
               Depends: nvidia-alternative (= 275.09.07-5) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages