Bug#904486: glx-alternative-mesa: upgrading glx-alternative-mesa to 0.8.5 fails because of /usr/lib/mesa-diverted doesn't exist

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2018-07-24 19:50, Thomas Krutz wrote:
> Setting up glx-alternative-mesa (0.8.5) ...
> Processing triggers for glx-alternative-mesa (0.8.5) ...
> update-alternatives: error: alternative path /usr/lib/mesa-diverted doesn't exist
> dpkg: error processing package glx-alternative-mesa (--configure):
>  installed glx-alternative-mesa package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 2
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  glx-alternative-mesa
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> this is a intel only system...

Interesting corner case that you found: glx-alternative-mesa + libgl1

BTW, hy did you have glx-alternative-mesa installed at all?


Andreas