On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 04:14:04PM +0100, Gaël Varoquaux wrote: > Installing the xlibmesa-gl-dev package from unstable I get a error > message : > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / $ apt-get -t unstable -f install [...] > Unpacking xlibmesa-gl-dev (from .../xlibmesa-gl-dev_4.3.0-7_i386.deb) ... > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibmesa-gl-dev_4.3.0-7_i386.deb (--unpack): > unable to create `./usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.a': No such file or > directory > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibmesa-gl-dev_4.3.0-7_i386.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) [...] > /usr/X11R6/lib does exist (as I have symlinked /usr/X11 to > /usr/X11R6), eventhough I don't think it is the "debian" way (if I am > not wrong debian puts X in /usr/X11). > > Anyway, this package currently does not install and it has frozen my > installation process on my computers.
Debian puts X in /usr/X11R6. Could you mail this list the output of the following commands?: $ ls -dl /usr /usr/X11R6 /usr/X11R6/lib -- G. Branden Robinson | Those who fail to remember the laws Debian GNU/Linux | of science are condemned to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | rediscover some of the worst ones. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Harold Gordon
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