Bumblebee should recommend libgl1-mesa-glx:i386
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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bumblebee (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
primus (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Vincent Cheng |
Bug Description
When bumblebee-nvidia is installed, its postinst script configures the system to use the Mesa GL libraries instead of the NVIDIA ones.
The script does so for both amd64 and i386 libraries... or tries to.
However, since libgl1-
If the user installs bumblebee, then a 32-bit program (like Skype or Steam), he/she won't be able to run it!
Therefore, bumblebee-
The version in the Bumblebee PPA (ppa:bumblebee/
Argh. AFAIK, there is no way for a package to specify a depends/recommends relationship on another package of a different arch, at least not in a Policy-compliant way. Also, the real problem here is that Ubuntu's mesa/GL packages don't have sane (non-arch-specific) alternatives handling, unlike Debian.