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sudo apt-get install ia32-libs fails

Asked by David

This is on Feisty 7.04 AMD64 server

Get the following error message:

    Unpacking ia32-libs (from .../ia32-libs_1.5ubuntu9_amd64.deb) ...
    dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ia32-libs_1.5ubuntu9_amd64.deb (--unpack):
    unable to create `./usr/lib32/libGL.so.1.2': No such file or directory
    dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
    Errors were encountered while processing:
    /var/cache/apt/archives/ia32-libs_1.5ubuntu9_amd64.deb
    E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Yet when I look inside of /var/cache/apt/archives/ia32-libs_1.5ubuntu9_amd64.deb it shows "usr/lib32/libGL.so.1.2" as being in it.

Does this mean that the Debian package is flawed?

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David (david-kahn) said : 		#1

I seem to have solved my problem. Which I am posting to potentially help others that run into it.

I did: dpkg -S libGL.so.1.2
and found out that the same file was part of nvidia-glx

So I used "sudo apt-get remove nvidia-glx" to uninstall the nvidia, which seemed to have a conflict. Nevertheless sudo apt-get install ia32-libs continued to fail.

I then reinstalled nvidia-glx (sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx), and then
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs succeeded!

Better yet VMware now works.