Comment 18 for bug 130208

I think I need to reopen this bug. I have a system that I upgraded from 5.10 incrementally all the way to 8.10. I was recently cleaning up some residual config files and ran across this nvidia-glx problem. In my case, it is conflicting with the nvidia-glx-177. I know it used to run nvidia-glx-new at some time in the past with a different video card. Here is the output of the removal error messages:
E: nvidia-glx: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2

(Reading database ... 223268 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing nvidia-glx ...
Purging configuration files for nvidia-glx ...
dpkg-divert: mismatch on package
  when removing `diversion of /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 to /usr/lib/nvidia/libGL.so.1.xlibmesa by nvidia-glx'
  found `diversion of /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 to /usr/lib/nvidia/libGL.so.1.xlibmesa by nvidia-glx-177'
dpkg: error processing nvidia-glx (--purge):
 subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 nvidia-glx
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:

Any help would be appreciated.