Problem Installing nvidia-glx to unstable the Debian Way

[Scott Edwards <msedwardsus@yahoo.com>]

Hello All,

I'm trying to get my nvidia GeForce 6600 PCIe up and
running for my Athlon64 system, and I'm running into a
problem... I found Len Sorensen's instructions on how
to do this "The Debian Way" at
http://tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/debian/debian-nvidia-dri-howto.txt.
I'm running a custom built 2.6.17.1 kernel and managed
to execute the module-assistant steps okay. When I
tried to execute Step #5 after that, this is what I
got:

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benito:~# apt-get install nvidia-glx nvidia-glx-dev
xserver-xorg
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
xserver-xorg is already the newest version.
The following packages will be REMOVED
  libgl1-mesa-dev mesa-common-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed
  nvidia-glx nvidia-glx-dev
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 2 to remove and 98 not
upgraded.
Need to get 4054kB of archives.
After unpacking 11.3MB of additional disk space will
be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get: 1 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/non-free
nvidia-glx 1.0.8762-2 [3904kB]
Get: 2 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/non-free
nvidia-glx-dev 1.0.8762-2 [150kB]
Fetched 4054kB in 27s (146kB/s)
dpkg: libgl1-mesa-dev: dependency problems, but
removing anyway as you request:
 libqt3-mt-dev depends on libgl1-mesa-dev | libgl-dev;
however:
  Package libgl1-mesa-dev is to be removed.
  Package libgl-dev is not installed.
  Package libgl1-mesa-dev which provides libgl-dev is
to be removed.
 libglu1-mesa-dev depends on libgl1-mesa-dev |
libgl-dev; however:
  Package libgl1-mesa-dev is to be removed.
  Package libgl-dev is not installed.
  Package libgl1-mesa-dev which provides libgl-dev is
to be removed.
 libqt3-mt-dev depends on libgl1-mesa-dev | libgl-dev;
however:
  Package libgl1-mesa-dev is to be removed.
  Package libgl-dev is not installed.
  Package libgl1-mesa-dev which provides libgl-dev is
to be removed.
 libglu1-mesa-dev depends on libgl1-mesa-dev |
libgl-dev; however:
  Package libgl1-mesa-dev is to be removed.
  Package libgl-dev is not installed.
  Package libgl1-mesa-dev which provides libgl-dev is
to be removed.
(Reading database ... 119232 files and directories
currently installed.)
Removing libgl1-mesa-dev ...
Removing mesa-common-dev ...
Selecting previously deselected package nvidia-glx.
(Reading database ... 119168 files and directories
currently installed.)
Unpacking nvidia-glx (from
.../nvidia-glx_1.0.8762-2_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg-divert: `diversion of
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a to
/usr/lib/nvidia/libGLcore.a.xlibmesa by nvidia-glx'
clashes with `diversion of
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a to
/usr/lib/nvidia/libGLcore.a.xlibmesa by
nvidia-glx-legacy'
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/nvidia-glx_1.0.8762-2_amd64.deb
(--unpack):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error
exit status 2
Selecting previously deselected package
nvidia-glx-dev.
Unpacking nvidia-glx-dev (from
.../nvidia-glx-dev_1.0.8762-2_amd64.deb) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:

/var/cache/apt/archives/nvidia-glx_1.0.8762-2_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code
(1)
benito:~#
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I don't really understand what the problem is with
dpkg-divert, it looks like nvidia-glx and
nvidia-glx-dev both want to divert the same files. Any
suggestions on how to resolve this?

Thanks very much,




Scott Edwards
msedwardsus@yahoo.com

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