nvidia-current doesn't check if /usr/share/applications exists

[Gijs Molenaar]

nvidia-current doesn't check if /usr/share/applications exists. It runs update-alternatives to set ubuntu-nvidia-settings.desktop, but this assumes /usr/share/applications already exists. This happens when to packages that use this path are installed. This happens when you have empty Ubntu server system or a empty debootstrap chroot.

Error:

Setting up nvidia-current (280.13-0ubuntu6) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/nvidia-current/ld.so.conf to provide /etc/ld.so.conf.d/x86_64-linux-gnu_GL.conf (x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf) in auto mode.
update-alternatives: error: unable to make /usr/share/applications/ubuntu-nvidia-settings.desktop.dpkg-tmp a symlink to /etc/alternatives/x86_64-linux-gnu_nvidia_desktop: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing nvidia-current (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

How to reproduce: run apt-get install nvidia-graphics-drivers in an empty debootstrap chroot.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.