[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)

[Florian Echtler]

On amd64, same problem occurs for me with libqt4-dbus:

[1] $ sudo apt-get install --reinstall libqt4-dbus
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/171 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
E: Internal Error, No file name for libqt4-dbus
[100] $ 

None of the workarounds posted here seem to fix this. Consequently,
BrokenCount is always > 0 and update-notifier displays an error.

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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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