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Bug#206970: xlibmesa-gl-dev: Installation failure due to impossible overwrite of a file



On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 04:00:28 -0500
Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> wrote:

> >  trying to overwrite '/ust/include/GL', which is also in package 
> > xlibmesa-glu-dev
> > 
> > I get of course the same message for xlibmesa-glu-dev
> 
> Did you type that error in by hand?  I feel pretty sure that none of
> my packages tried to install ANYTHING do a directory called "/ust".
> 
> If you did make a typo there...

Yes, of course. I meant /usr/include/GL
> 
> Is /usr/include/GL a symbolic link on your system?  If so, you may
> need to purge and reinstall both packages.  This would be a dpkg bug,
> not a bug in my packages -- they don't attempt to install a symbolic
> link to that location.

Yes, it was. It was even invalid, pointing to the old nVidia files (that
don't exist any more). Deleting it helped.

Thank you very much and sorry for bothering...

Best regrads
	Andreas
-- 
Andreas Tscharner                                  starfire@dplanet.ch
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