nVidia 32-bit Compatibility Packages Broken

[steve.t.sullivan]

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:

• 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?

[zerozero]

you are not alone in that issue (i know that saying this is not giving you a solution but at least you won't feel so lonely )
see grraf and PragTob comments here >> viewtopic.php?f=186&t=119079&p=662605#p662605