I don't know much about package management, but it seems like it might be a few more packages than just libgl1-mesa-dri involved.
I attempted to just remove libgl1-dri earlier and perform an upgrade, but it continued to fail unless I removed more. There are a total of 7 packages I removed: libgl1-mesa libgl1-dev libgl1-dri libglu1-mesa libglu1-mesa-dev mesa-common-dev mesa-utils Some of those might not be essential to remove, but I did remove them nevertheless. The trouble is that you can't just remove them. As Aum11 mentioned in one of the dups of this bug, x-window-system-core is dependent upon libgl1-dri. I tried just downgrading that package to what is in the ubuntu repository, but I then got a report that there were about 50 apps that were going to be removed. They were important ones like gdm, gksu, nvidia-glx, hal-device-manager, etc. I uninstalled these apps by hand, downgraded libgl1-dri, and reinstalled them. I was able to get through most of the upgrade, though it failed later on. I'll probably try to upgrade again later to see if I can work around the other error, but I'm not looking forward to uninstalling and reinstalling 50 packages by hand. :) My question is whether it is a bug in synaptic which caused a forced downgrade in libgl1-dri to think it had to remove all of those (literally 50) packages. They clearly weren't dependent on the 6.5.1+cvs20060824 version because I was able to reinstall all 50 after removing them and downgrading libgl1-dri (and the other packages listed above.) I know we are at fault for installing something that wasn't in the ubuntu repository, but I'm thinking that synaptic should be a little more helpful at bailing us out. :) Thanks, -M -- Can't calculate the upgrade with unofficial mesa/compiz packages https://launchpad.net/bugs/58424 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
