I ran across a dependency problem when dist-upgrading using apt-get. The following packages were set to be removed: libwxgtk2.6-0 libxine1 python-wxgtk2.6 vlc vlc-plugin-alsa wxvlc xine-ui xlibmesa-glu xserver-common xserver-xorg
After some digging, I found some of the packages had dependencies on "libglu1-mesa | libglu1" and eventually resolved the issue by first installing libglu1-mesa which then removed xlibmesa-glu: # apt-get install libglu1-mesa Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: xlibmesa-glu The following NEW packages will be installed: libglu1-mesa 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 63 not upgraded. Need to get 238kB of archives. After unpacking 238kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Get:1 http://mirrors.kernel.org unstable/main libglu1-mesa 6.4.1-0.4 [238kB] Fetched 238kB in 4s (48.3kB/s) dpkg: xlibmesa-glu: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you request: vlc depends on libglu1-mesa | libglu1; however: Package libglu1-mesa is not installed. Package libglu1 is not installed. Package xlibmesa-glu which provides libglu1 is to be removed. libxine1 depends on libglu1-mesa | libglu1; however: Package libglu1-mesa is not installed. Package libglu1 is not installed. Package xlibmesa-glu which provides libglu1 is to be removed. libwxgtk2.6-0 depends on libglu1-mesa | libglu1; however: Package libglu1-mesa is not installed. Package libglu1 is not installed. Package xlibmesa-glu which provides libglu1 is to be removed. xbase-clients depends on libglu1-xorg | libglu1; however: Package libglu1-xorg is not installed. Package libglu1 is not installed. Package xlibmesa-glu which provides libglu1 is to be removed. (Reading database ... 94575 files and directories currently installed.) Removing xlibmesa-glu ... Selecting previously deselected package libglu1-mesa. (Reading database ... 94568 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libglu1-mesa (from .../libglu1-mesa_6.4.1-0.4_i386.deb) ... Setting up libglu1-mesa (6.4.1-0.4) And then dist-upgrade only wants to remove xserver-common which is as it should be: fenny:~# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: xserver-common I'm not sure what package to report a bug against (if any), so it was suggested to me to just report it here. I hope this is appropriate. Thanks, JDR
