[Bug 859188] Re: can't apt-get install --reinstall when foreign-arch version is present (E: Internal Error, No file name for libgl1-mesa-glx)

[Roger Binns]

Unless you are unfortunate enough like me where the package affected was
libc6 as it has defensive coding in the install scripts and refuses to
reinstall.  Ultimately you have to reinstall Ubuntu to get anywhere.

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Title:
  can't apt-get install --reinstall when foreign-arch version is present
  (E: Internal Error, No file name for libgl1-mesa-glx)

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Hi, I wanted to reinstall  libgl1-mesa-glx because I cannot run KDE4.7.1 and synaptic and also apt-get using konsole gives me this:
  "E: Internal Error, No file name for libgl1-mesa-glx"
  It seems the package is not avaliable, right?
  Thanks

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: apt 0.8.16~exp5ubuntu11
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun Sep 25 22:44:19 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: apt
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-24 (1 days ago)

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