On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 01:43:38PM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: > 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 I've only ever seen reports of this from people who had the nvidia-glx package installed, which apparently (at one point) did not use dpkg-divert correctly. nvidia-glx maintainer, can you confirm this, please? What is the best workaround? This is pretty close to a FAQ on debian-x. -- G. Branden Robinson | "Why do we have to hide from the Debian GNU/Linux | police, Daddy?" branden@debian.org | "Because we use vi, son. They use http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | emacs."
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