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and subject line Re: [Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#752383: ia32-libs: Install
silently does not overwrite old /usr/lib32/libGL.so.1 symbolic link
has caused the Debian Bug report #752383,
regarding ia32-libs: Install silently does not overwrite old
/usr/lib32/libGL.so.1 symbolic link
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: ia32-libs
Version: 1:0.4
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
I have previously installed the nVidia drivers directly from nVidia. I believe
(but am not certain) that they created /usr/lib32/libGL.so.1 as a symbolic link
to /usr/lib32/libGL.so.173.14.09. This seems to link to libGLcore.so.1, which
does not exist on the 304 series of drivers.
The ia32-libs file should probably overwrite this symbolic link, or perhaps
alert the user that it exists and error, instead it just silently doesn't
overwrite and instead leaves the old driver.
Removing the symbolic link and reinstalling ia32-libs fixed the problem, but
only after many hours of debugging.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.5
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages ia32-libs depends on:
ii ia32-libs-i386 1:0.4
ii multiarch-support 2.13-38+deb7u1
ia32-libs recommends no packages.
Versions of packages ia32-libs suggests:
ii ia32-libs-gtk 1:0.1
-- no debconf information
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 06:36:08PM +1000, Clinton Mead wrote:
> Package: ia32-libs
> Version: 1:0.4
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I have previously installed the nVidia drivers directly from nVidia. I believe
> (but am not certain) that they created /usr/lib32/libGL.so.1 as a symbolic
> link
> to /usr/lib32/libGL.so.173.14.09. This seems to link to libGLcore.so.1, which
> does not exist on the 304 series of drivers.
>
> The ia32-libs file should probably overwrite this symbolic link, or perhaps
> alert the user that it exists and error, instead it just silently doesn't
> overwrite and instead leaves the old driver.
>
> Removing the symbolic link and reinstalling ia32-libs fixed the problem, but
> only after many hours of debugging.
>
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 7.5
> APT prefers stable
> APT policy: (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages ia32-libs depends on:
> ii ia32-libs-i386 1:0.4
> ii multiarch-support 2.13-38+deb7u1
>
> ia32-libs recommends no packages.
>
> Versions of packages ia32-libs suggests:
> ii ia32-libs-gtk 1:0.1
>
> -- no debconf information
>
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Firstly if nvidia created the link then nvidia must remove it too. It
is not the job of ia32-libs to clean up after nvidia.
Secondly ia32-libs is just an empty meta package depending on lots of
other packages. It doesn't contain any libGL so it can't set any link
to it.
MfG
Goswin
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