Bug#708040: libgl1-mesa-dri: uninstallable

[Salvo Tomaselli <tiposchi@tiscali.it>]

> I understand that it is link to a bug in dpkg, but today,
> libgl1-mesa-dri and some other package are uninstallable on some
> system. I so believe that the bug should remain open (at least to let
> apt-listbugs warn its user that the might have difficulties with this).
Which is exactly why I set an high priority on the bug.

>   dpkg -i --force-overwrite
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libgl1-mesa-dri_8.0.5-4+b1_i386.deb
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libgl1-mesa-dri_8.0.5-4+b1_amd64.deb
> 
> should fix your problem. There will probably be other conflict that will
> need similar forcing to
Thanks, I didn't know about this. Usually I just go by removing the 
/usr/share/doc/package directory.


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Salvo Tomaselli

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