Bug#258396: xlibmesa-gl-dev: Installation fails with unable to create `./usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.a': No such file or directory
Package: xlibmesa-gl-dev
Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6
Severity: important
Installation of all versions xlibmesa-gl-dev_4.3.0.dfsg.1-(4|5|6)
fails with the following error message:
dpkg -i xlibmesa-gl-dev_4.3.0.dfsg.1-6_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 136313 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking xlibmesa-gl-dev (from xlibmesa-gl-dev_4.3.0.dfsg.1-6_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing xlibmesa-gl-dev_4.3.0.dfsg.1-6_i386.deb (--install):
unable to create `./usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.a': No such file or directory
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
xlibmesa-gl-dev_4.3.0.dfsg.1-6_i386.deb
With google I found a report on a mailinglist here:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2004/03/msg03596.html
Output of ls -dl /usr /usr/X11R6 /usr/X11R6/lib is:
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 368 May 18 08:47 /usr
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 144 Mar 29 20:07 /usr/X11R6
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4240 Jul 9 13:30 /usr/X11R6/lib
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-bk16
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE)
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