Re: nvidia-glx won't install

[Andrej Marjan <amarjan@pobox.com>]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 12:58:11AM +1000, Jonathan David Wheelhouse wrote:
> Hi
> 
> An apt-get update & dist-upgrade got the newer nvidia-kernel-src and
> nvidia-glx-src packages(1.0.1251-1).  I ran the build scripts (ie. make-kpkg
> modules-image & dpkg-buildpackage -us uc respectively) but dpkg -i on
> the nvidia-glx deb gave a missing xlibmesa-dev problem.
> 
> I apt-get install that but it dies on "trying to overwrite
> '/usr/include/GL/gl.h', which is also in package nvidia-glx".
> 
> Can somebody help (I want WindowMaker back!)?

dpkg --force-overwrite (all options are viewable through dpkg
--force-help) works. It's a package bug.

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