On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 06:40:16PM -0400, Curt Howland wrote: > ========== > Removing nvidia-glx ... > rm: cannot remove `/usr/lib/libGL.so': No such file or directory > dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting `/usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2' with > different file `/usr/lib/nvidia/libGL.so.1.2.xlibmesa', not allowed > dpkg: error processing nvidia-glx (--purge): > subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2 > Errors were encountered while processing: > nvidia-glx > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > ========== > > This is preventing every other function, stopping updating and such. > > I have the idea that I could _delete_ the file "/usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2" > and run the remove, but I don't know what problems that might cause.
You could rename it, and try again. I have nvidia installed on Lenny using "module assistant"… fischer:~# ls -al /usr/lib/libGL* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2009-01-09 16:34 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.173.14.09 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 845024 2008-09-02 06:09 /usr/lib/libGL.so.173.14.09 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2008-12-29 21:56 /usr/lib/libGLU.so.1 -> libGLU.so.1.3.070004 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 546088 2008-12-14 15:29 /usr/lib/libGLU.so.1.3.070004 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2009-01-09 16:34 /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1 -> libGLcore.so.173.14.09 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16181640 2008-09-02 06:09 /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.173.14.09 … and I have no "/usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2" file. Here is the contents of "/usr/lib/nvidia/" fischer:~# ls -al /usr/lib/nvidia/ total 3788 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-07-01 14:51 . drwxr-xr-x 80 root root 49152 2010-05-30 23:39 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 517264 2008-12-14 15:29 libGL.so.1.2.xlibmesa lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2008-12-29 21:56 libGL.so.1.xlibmesa -> libGL.so.1.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2606591 2009-06-11 22:07 libGLcore.so.xlibmesa -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 529621 2009-06-11 22:07 libglx.so.xlibmesa -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 127224 2008-09-02 06:09 libnvidia-cfg.so.173.14.09 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5064 2008-09-02 06:09 tls_test -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4920 2008-09-02 06:09 tls_test_dso.so -- Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100616121059.gb31...@fischer
