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Author Can anyone help with broken packages??
abc

2005-07-08, 7:46 am

I have 2 Nvidia packages that are broken, no matter what I do I can not
delete, upgrade or reinstall.

Thanks Paul



root@maple:/home/jpb# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
nvidia-glx nvidia-glx-dev
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 2 not upgraded. 431 not
fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 6966kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue?
[Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 179387 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing nvidia-glx-dev ...
dpkg-divert: rename: rename
`/usr/share/nvidia-glx/diversions-X11R6/libGL.a' to
`/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.a': Invalid cross-device link dpkg: error processing
nvidia-glx-dev (--remove):
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: nvidia-glx: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you request:
nvidia-glx-dev depends on nvidia-glx (>= 1.0.4496).
Removing nvidia-glx ...
dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting `/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2'
with
different file `/usr/share/nvidia-glx/diversions-X11R6/libGL.so.1.2',
not allo wed
dpkg: error processing nvidia-glx (--remove):
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
nvidia-glx-dev
nvidia-glx
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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