Array 4 on AMD64 - libxmuul + nvidia-glx problem

[Byron Poland]

On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 15:48:17 -0500, Byron Poland <wpoland at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tried to install the NVIDIA packages so that I could get out of
> 640x400 on my 19" screen, and dpkg won't install libxmuu1 either from
> the install cd or the download from the archives with apt.  I get the
> same error:
> 
> byron at glide:/media/cdrom1/pool/main/x/xorg$ sudo dpkg -i
> libxmuu1_6.8.1-1ubuntu15_amd64.deb
> Password:
> dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 858
> package `libxmuu1':
>  missing version
> 
> Apparently nvidia-glx depends on this lib, so I can't install that.
> 

I hate to replay to myself, but upon further looking libxmuu1 is a
depends for xlibs, so apt tries to install no matter what you are
installing so it can fix xlibs which it thinks is broken.