Bug#814003: libgl1-nvidia-legacy-340xx-glx: Broken libgl1-nvidia-glx:amd64 Conflicts on libgl1-nvidia-glx-340.96

Mon Mar 14 19:08:23 UTC 2016

On 2016-02-07 14:16, Joel Soete wrote:
> Package: libgl1-nvidia-legacy-340xx-glx
> I prefere a testing Debian installation for personal convenience but my
> nvidia card (Quadro FX 580) is not any more supported by the new driver
>> 352.79 also I foreseen to install the 'nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver'
> (better then put packages on HOLD).
> Unfortunately this installation failed:
> # apt-get install -s nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver

> Broken libgl1-nvidia-glx:amd64 Conflicts on libgl1-nvidia-glx-340.96 [
> amd64 ] < none > ( none )
[...]

> Any idea how to fis this problem?

The nvidia-driver and nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver packages of the *same*
upstream version (340.96 in your case) are not co-installable, so first
remove nvidia-driver (and its libraries) before installing the legacy
driver. (Any other version combination would work.)

Andreas