nVidia 32-bit Compatibility Packages Broken
Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2012 3:53 pm
So I recently moved from Linux Mint 12 to LMDE. There's a 32-bit 3D app that I like to regularly run, so historically I've installed the ia32 and nvidia 32-bit compatibility packages so it'll work. I noticed however that in the current LMDE repos, those packages have become empty transitional packages that depend on i386 packages. So I added the i386 architecture to dpkg and let apt start pulling down said i386 dependencies.
The problem came when I tried to install libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386. That depends on libxvmc1:i386, which in turn wants to uninstall the following packages:
Obviously I can't uninstall those packages because they're the core nVidia packages, and uninstalling them would pretty much break the xserver. Does anyone know more about this problem, have a solution, or know if a solution is in the works from the LMDE or Debian teams?
The problem came when I tried to install libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386. That depends on libxvmc1:i386, which in turn wants to uninstall the following packages:
- libgl1-nvidia-glx
- libxvmc1
- nvidia-glx
- xserver-xorg-video-nvidia
Obviously I can't uninstall those packages because they're the core nVidia packages, and uninstalling them would pretty much break the xserver. Does anyone know more about this problem, have a solution, or know if a solution is in the works from the LMDE or Debian teams?