On Wednesday 10 October 2007, Sven Joachim wrote: > > Can you please try aptitude instead of apt-get? Aptitude has an > interactive resolver that can try several solutions and generally > gives more information than apt-get. > > Thanks, > Sven
Sven, that was a really good piece of advice. aptitude indicated that the problem was a conflict with package libgl1-mesa-swx11. I could not remove that package without killing xorg&kde. But I could install libgl1-mesa-glx - that removed libgl1-mesa-swx11 and a few other libraries while evidently satisfying the necessary dependencies. After that, installing nvidia-glx worked. So we (the fraction of the Debian community using non-free nvidia code) really have two problems: 1) that in this case - which I think will happen to everyone trying to install nvidia-glx on an october 2007 "sid" debian - installing nvidia-glx is non-trivial exercise. This could be seen as a bug - at least a documentation bug - for nvidia-graphics-driver. The bug is pretty new - I did the same exercise on a different "sid" debian system in September and did not hit this particular wall. 2) that apt is giving a completely useless error message in this situation, a message that does not help at all figuring out what the real problem is. This could be seen as a bug for apt. Any suggestions as on how to proceed? I don't have a problem any longer - but a lot of other people might. best regards -- Peder Chr. Nørgaard e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gefionsvej 19 spejder-e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DK-8230 Åbyhøj tel: +45 87 44 11 99 Denmark mob: +45 30 91 84 31