Problem upgrading nvidia

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2017-09-11 08:10, Norbert Preining wrote:
> it seems that some relations in the nvidia related packages are blocking 
> an upgrade. I am since quite some time stuck in 375.82-1 without an

That can't be long, since -2 and -3 have been in unstable for a few days
only :-)

> upgrade path. Aptitude/apt-get refuse to upgrade unless loads of libraries
> are being removed. I am far from convinced that these libraries are
> not necessary anymore, mainly 
> 	lib{gles,egl1,glx0-glvnd-nvidia}*   (amd64,i386)
> and so on.
> 
> Could this be a consequence of having steam:i386 installed?

unlikely

> I tried to unwind the dependencies but it is a huge convolution with
> the mixture of mesa and nvidia libs providing similar things.

That's the ongoing "transition" from the nvidia-provided *glvnd-nvidia*
libraries to the separately packaged libglvnd, that is also being used
by mesa now.

Your dpkg status file might be interesting (to recreate the situation)
as well as the command you used and the (error) output you got. Please
file a bug, makes it easier to track this.


Andreas