Bug#917267: glx-diversions cannot be uninstalled

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2018-12-25 09:04, Norbert Preining wrote:
> I recently purged all kind of nvidia* packages from my computer, and now
> none of them is actually there, but I still cannot uninstall
> glx-diversions:
> $ aptitute 
> ...
> Performing actions...
> (Reading database ... 961080 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing glx-diversions (0.9.0) ...
> dpkg-divert: error: rename involves overwriting '/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1' with
>   different file '/usr/lib/mesa-diverted/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1', not allowed

You shouldn't have /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 at this point ...
Where does it come from? Did you try to "fix" some things manually?
Is it a file or symlink?
ls -la, md5sum, timestamp, link target?

Any ideas how you got into this configuration? Didn't encounter
something like this in my tests.


Happy Holidays!


Andreas