Upgrade to Dapper: nvidia-glx

[Darryl Clarke]

On 02/02/06, David Walker <dave at mudsite.com> wrote:
> Help!
>
> (Reading database ... 107227 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace nvidia-glx 1.0.7667-0ubuntu25.1 (using
> .../nvidia-glx_1.0.8178+2.6.15.4-4_i386.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement nvidia-glx ...
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/nvidia-glx_1.0.8178+2.6.15.4-4_i386.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/nvidia-settings', which is also in
> package nvidia-settings
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/nvidia-glx_1.0.8178+2.6.15.4-4_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
>
> I get this on a dist-upgrade to dapper.  Odd thing is that
> /usr/bin/nvidia-settings does not exist!  I am also unable to remove
> either nvidia-glx, or nvidia-settings with the following error:
>
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   libfontenc1: Depends: x11-common (>= 7.0.0-0ubuntu3) but it is not
> installed
>   libxfont1: Depends: x11-common (>= 7.0.0-0ubuntu3) but it is not installed
>   xserver-xorg-core: Depends: x11-common but it is not installed
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.


What happens on 'sudo apt-get -f install'?

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