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by **Paco** on Tue Jul 05, 2011 12:03 pm

yes, and we must know when it is safe to do the "jump"...

by **tjcravey** on Tue Jul 05, 2011 12:10 pm

I was able to fix this by temporarily changing from testing to unstable in sources.list, installing nvidia-glx and all dependencies, and then reverting back from unstable to testing. Everything seems to be working great. Did a clean and update and everything still shows up to date and I'm not asked to remove anything that was installed from unstable.

Here's how I did it:

sudo vim /etc/apt/source.list (sub vim with the editor of your choice)
find this line: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
change it to: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
save and quit.

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx

sudo vim /etc/apt/source.list (sub vim with the editor of your choice)
find this line: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
change it to: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
save and quit

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo reboot

by **clem** on Tue Jul 05, 2011 2:10 pm

http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1781

by **kruijf** on Tue Jul 05, 2011 3:04 pm

clem wrote:http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1781

Post it on our Mint.nl blog en retweet it on twitter thanks clem.

Any one has a solution for my flash/youtube problem?
Video is giving lag and sounds stil go one.

by **t3g** on Tue Jul 05, 2011 4:10 pm

tjcravey wrote:I was able to fix this by temporarily changing from testing to unstable in sources.list, installing nvidia-glx and all dependencies, and then reverting back from unstable to testing. Everything seems to be working great. Did a clean and update and everything still shows up to date and I'm not asked to remove anything that was installed from unstable.

Here's how I did it:

sudo vim /etc/apt/source.list (sub vim with the editor of your choice)
find this line: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
change it to: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
save and quit.

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx

sudo vim /etc/apt/source.list (sub vim with the editor of your choice)
find this line: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
change it to: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
save and quit

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo reboot

Just remember the country you are in for better speed. For example, US people may benefit more from it being
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free

by **kmb42vt** on Tue Jul 05, 2011 5:57 pm

t3g wrote:Just remember the country you are in for better speed. For example, US people may benefit more from it being
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free

I'll second that one and add that it's always good to choose a mirror for downloading updates rather than the actual Debian servers since those servers are always under a heavy load. There's a whole lot more distros based on Debian stable, testing and unstable that are hauling down updates than just LMDE.

by **mockturtl** on Tue Jul 05, 2011 6:05 pm

re: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=442574#p442574

Lewdsquirrel wrote:Hi guys,
like some of you, the latest updates broke my shinny LMDE, because I was using Nvidia proprietary drivers, and was too stupid to notice that the update was going to remove them!

Hey, who you callin' stupid?! :lol:

Thanks Lewdsquirrel and gazza! The script brought my desktop right back. (reader note: amd64 only! Achtung! Cuidado!)

I made sure I was completely up-to-date with the debian-wheezy repos before running the fix. Now I've switched sources.list to the new lmde-incoming repo... and apt wants to remove my nvidia drivers again?

Code: Select all: $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list ... #MINT-SNAPSHOT #deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/incoming testing main contrib non-free ... $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade ... The following packages will be REMOVED: libgl1-nvidia-alternatives libgl1-nvidia-glx nvidia-glx The following packages will be upgraded: libgl1-mesa-dev libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx libglu1-mesa mesa-common-dev xserver-common xserver-xorg-core

Is this expected? Won't I be hosed again if I proceed?

edit: yes, of course removing nvidia packages breaks the desktop again... I guess I need to wait for dependencies to catch up

edit: impatience got the better of me, I pulled nvidia-glx 275.09.07-4 from sid and upgraded to libgl1-mesa 7.10.3-3... looking good now

by **nykur** on Tue Jul 05, 2011 8:10 pm

tjcravey wrote:I was able to fix this by temporarily changing from testing to unstable in sources.list, installing nvidia-glx and all dependencies, and then reverting back from unstable to testing. Everything seems to be working great. Did a clean and update and everything still shows up to date and I'm not asked to remove anything that was installed from unstable.

Here's how I did it:

sudo vim /etc/apt/source.list (sub vim with the editor of your choice)
find this line: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
change it to: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
save and quit.

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx

sudo vim /etc/apt/source.list (sub vim with the editor of your choice)
find this line: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
change it to: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
save and quit

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo reboot

Thanks! Makes perfect sense and works like a charm:-) (And this is even easier of course if one leaves the unstable / experimental repos in pinned way down. Then apt-get install -t unstable nvidia-glx does the trick without even entering an editor:-)

by **roger64** on Wed Jul 06, 2011 12:46 am

About exim4-base and libgnutls26

This morning, I wanted to update some packages (see screenshot below) but I have been warned by apt-listbugs of a potential serious bug and I cancelled it without checking further. It seems if I understand properly (not sure) it concerns libgnutls26.
Here is a copy of my terminal window (in French, nobody is perfect

)

One line means: Serious bug on exim4-base (-> 4.76-2) uncorrected. The bug is numbered #619439
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=619439

Code: Select all: Lecture des champs des paquets... Fait Lecture de l'état des paquets... Fait Récupération des rapports de bogue... Fait Analyse des informations Trouvé/Corrigé... Fait Bogues de gravité grave sur exim4-base (-> 4.76-2) <non corrigé> #619439 - Please do _not_ distribute gnutls-params in the package Résumé : exim4-base(1 bogue) Êtes-vous certain de vouloir installer/mettre à jour les paquets ci-dessus ? [Y/n/?/...] n ******************************************************************* ****** Sortie en erreur forcée pour stopper l'installation. ****** ******************************************************************* E: Le sous-processus /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10 a renvoyé un code d'erreur (10) E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10 Échec de l'installation d'un paquet. Tentative de récupération :

Here is my proposed update from Mint repository.

by **xircon** on Wed Jul 06, 2011 5:09 am

Similar problem, not sure how to proceed.

by **ther** on Wed Jul 06, 2011 11:02 am

Worked brilliantly! Many thanks!

tjcravey wrote:I was able to fix this by temporarily changing from testing to unstable in sources.list, installing nvidia-glx and all dependencies, and then reverting back from unstable to testing. Everything seems to be working great. Did a clean and update and everything still shows up to date and I'm not asked to remove anything that was installed from unstable.

Here's how I did it:

sudo vim /etc/apt/source.list (sub vim with the editor of your choice)
find this line: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
change it to: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
save and quit.

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx

sudo vim /etc/apt/source.list (sub vim with the editor of your choice)
find this line: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
change it to: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
save and quit

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo reboot

by **gozer** on Wed Jul 06, 2011 12:22 pm

a shorter way to install the nvidia-glx package from sid (don't have to edit/re-edit sources.list):

Code: Select all: sudo apt-get install -t sid nvidia-glx

by **EmyrB** on Wed Jul 06, 2011 2:47 pm

I know this is kinda like asking how long is a piece of string, but I noticed that this thread started back in March, but any ideas when we can safely do updates without it removing the nvidia drivers?

Cheers

EmyrB

by **zerozero** on Wed Jul 06, 2011 2:52 pm

EmyrB, nvidia isn't broken since march :lol:

it broke 4 days ago, and i believe that any day now it will be rebuilt against the new mesa/xorg

by **GeneC** on Wed Jul 06, 2011 3:42 pm

kmb42vt wrote:
zerozero wrote:this probably is out of the scoop of the incoming repo but a
Code: Select all
sudo apt-get install -t unstable nvidia-glx
has been reported several times to work

I can confirm that this does work when the "Debian testing" repo is temporarily changed to "unstable" in the sources list and installed as zerozero states. In fact it's the "nvidia-glx" package in the "debian testing" as well as the new Mint "latest" and "incoming" repositories that fails due to it's dependency on "libgl1-nvidia-glx" which is currently the wrong version. Installing/updating "nvidia-glx" from "ustable" repo installs the updated library as well as other dependencies. I don't have the version number of "libgl1-nvidia-glx" from "testing" that failed but the version installed from "unstable" is 275.09.07-4.

I have tried this an it doesn't work for me. :?:

I currently have the 64 bit Nvidia 275.09.07-1 driver installed and functioning properly.
I see the Nvidia 275.09.07-4 sitting there in the SID repo.

I run the command and get:

Code: Select all: gene@zordon ~ $ sudo apt-get install -t unstable nvidia-glx Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done nvidia-glx is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded. gene@zordon ~ $

Also, if I manually change my sources list to point to sid, and search Nvidia only the 275.09.07-1 driver show up, the 275.09.07-4 driver is nowhere to be seen (though its clearly there in the repo).
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/nvidia-glx

Am I doing something wrong?

I have all updates except

I did do the "xserver-common (2:1.10.2-1+wheezy1) to 2:1.10.2-2" update 2 days back, which I see as the only thing different than the rest.
Anyone have any ideas on how I can update to 275.09.07-4?
OR< is it that I have to upgrade Mesa FIRST, break Nvidia then try to get the new driver?

Thanks :wink:

by **zerozero** on Wed Jul 06, 2011 3:49 pm

Gene, try

Code: Select all: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -t unstable nvidia-glx

of course above you swap unstable with sid according to the sources.list

by **EmyrB** on Wed Jul 06, 2011 4:11 pm

zerozero wrote:EmyrB, nvidia isn't broken since march it broke 4 days ago, and i believe that any day now it will be rebuilt against the new mesa/xorg

Thanks for the quick reply, but I didn't mean to sound that the nvidia drivers were broken since march, but the thread had been started back in March.

Anyway good news as I really don't want to go through the hoops again, just to get where I am now :lol:

Cheers

EmyrB

by **GeneC** on Wed Jul 06, 2011 4:24 pm

zerozero wrote:Gene, try
Code: Select all
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -t unstable nvidia-glx

of course above you swap unstable with sid according to the sources.list

Thanks for the help "zz", but no go... :lol:

Code: Select all: gene@zordon ~ $ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -t sid nvidia-glx [sudo] password for gene: Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates InRelease Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main amd64 Packages Hit http://liquorix.net sid InRelease Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian InRelease Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing InRelease Hit http://ftp.debian.org testing InRelease Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib amd64 Packages Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free amd64 Packages Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib TranslationIndex Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main TranslationIndex Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free TranslationIndex Hit http://liquorix.net sid/main amd64 Packages Get:1 http://packages.linuxmint.com debian Release.gpg [198 B] Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing Release.gpg Ign http://liquorix.net sid/main TranslationIndex Get:2 http://packages.linuxmint.com debian Release [12.1 kB] Hit http://ftp.debian.org testing/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing Release Get:3 http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/main Sources [9,398 B] Hit http://ftp.debian.org testing/contrib amd64 Packages/DiffIndex Hit http://ftp.debian.org testing/non-free amd64 Packages/DiffIndex Ign http://ftp.debian.org testing/contrib TranslationIndex Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex Hit http://ftp.debian.org testing/main TranslationIndex Ign http://ftp.debian.org testing/non-free TranslationIndex Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/non-free amd64 Packages/DiffIndex Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/main TranslationIndex Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/non-free TranslationIndex Get:4 http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/upstream Sources [773 B] Get:5 http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/import Sources [2,590 B] Get:6 http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/main amd64 Packages [8,634 B] Get:7 http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/upstream amd64 Packages [5,192 B] Get:8 http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/import amd64 Packages [19.1 kB] Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/import TranslationIndex Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/main TranslationIndex Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/upstream TranslationIndex Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Translation-en_US Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Translation-en Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Translation-en_US Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Translation-en Ign http://liquorix.net sid/main Translation-en_US Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free Translation-en_US Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free Translation-en Ign http://liquorix.net sid/main Translation-en Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/main Translation-en_US Ign http://ftp.debian.org testing/contrib Translation-en_US Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/main Translation-en Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/non-free Translation-en_US Ign http://ftp.debian.org testing/contrib Translation-en Ign http://ftp.debian.org testing/non-free Translation-en_US Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/non-free Translation-en Ign http://ftp.debian.org testing/non-free Translation-en Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/import Translation-en_US Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/import Translation-en Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/main Translation-en_US Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/main Translation-en Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/upstream Translation-en_US Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/upstream Translation-en Fetched 58.0 kB in 8s (7,040 B/s) Reading package lists... Done Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done nvidia-glx is already the newest version. gene@zordon ~ $

I even tried "unstable". Same thing.
"...nvidia-glx is already the newest version..."
I'll post 'IF" I find a solution. :wink:

by **zerozero** on Wed Jul 06, 2011 4:31 pm

Gene i think i saw the problem

try this way, add this to your sources.list

Code: Select all: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free

and then do as i posted above

by **GeneC** on Wed Jul 06, 2011 4:54 pm

zerozero wrote:Gene i think i saw the problem
try this way, add this to your sources.list
Code: Select all
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free

and then do as i posted above

Thanks! That worked beautifully.
New driver upated.
All mesa updated without removing anything.
All is well in LMDE land again....

Thanks to the help of a kind and knowledgeable soul!

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