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Re: xlibmesa3-gl overwrite problem with ATI on sid



On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 10:26:18AM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote:
> using Radeon 9200 and its proprietary driver fglrx-glc22, with the
> latest upgrade of today I get the message
> 
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibmesa3-gl_4.2.1-13_i386.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2', which is also in
> package fglrx-glc22
> 
> I understand the problem; I also had to force the install of that
> ATI-driver.
> Since I don't want to break anything, how can I optimally circumvent
> this issue ?
>

I 'solved' the problem by putting the mesa packages on hold. There's
probably a better way by using diversions or something, but echo
"packagename hold" | dpkg --set-selections was simplest. 


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