> The problem here is, that /usr/lib64 is a symlink to /usr/lib in debian > pure64 (though I don't know why that is). The nvidia installer tries to > install all its 64bit libs in /usr/lib64 (so they are effectively > written to /usr/lib) and then writes the 32bit libs in /usr/lib. That's > where you get the error - because the 64bit libs are already there. > It's > obviously a Bad Thing and I'd like to see this fixed... Yes this would be nice, I was running gentoo and fedora 2 before wich has this lib32 directory,
> Whatever, if you don't need the 32bit libraries, then you might just > remove the /usr/lib64 symlink and create a real directory instead. Run > the installer, then copy the contents of /usr/lib64 over to /usr/lib and > make it a symlink again. If you want to use the 32bit libraries as well, > you have to manually copy them to /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib - it's > probably easiest to tell the nvidia installer to just extract all the > files in a directory and then copy them over by hand. This worked, glx is now running, thank you
