Re: xmesalib

[Steve Vejcik <stevevejcik@earthlink.net>]

Thanks again for the info, unfortunately it didn't work. Very
peculiar (or at least non-intuitive to me).   I tried the
workaround of renaming the libGL.so.1.2 file but 
I still couldn't get xlibmesa-gl to install-same 
error mesage about overwriting the (non-existent!)
libGL.so.1.2 file.  Thoughts anyone?
 Steve
On Thu 05 May 05 06:25, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 May 2005 00:20, Steve Vejcik wrote:
> > Hello folks-
> >         I'm trying to install xlibmesa on my woody-based system.
> >         I'm hitting the appended error message (and variants) when
> >         I use 'apt-get install xlibmesa-gl'.  If some kind soul can help
> >         decode (or even better, fix) the issue at hand, I'd be most
> >         appreciative.
> >                    Steve
> >
> > dpkg: error processing
> > /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibmesa-gl_4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1_i386.deb
> > (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2', which is
> > also in package fglrx
> > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> >  /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibmesa-gl_4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1_i386.deb
> > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> You have the ATI proprietary graphics driver installed and it delivers its
> own OpenGL implementation. An open source compatible version of it is in
> the xlibmesa-gl library too (dpkg -s xlibmesa-gl). So the two
> files /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 with the same names are in the two
> packages. So you could rename the one version of the file libGL.so.1.2 to
> something else, install the package and then symlink 'by hand' depending on
> what you need. I'm sure there's a more elegant solution in the likes of
> dpkg-divert but you might wanna read about it yourself:)
>
> http://www.debian-administration.org/?article=118
>
> Regards,
> Boris.