Broken apt, can't update libglvnd due to unmet dependencies (Nvidia)

Question

I haven't installed any new packages recently or added any PPAs, just ran apt update.

After running 'apt upgrade'

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libglvnd-dev : Depends: libglvnd0 (= 1.0.0-2ubuntu2.1) but 1.0.0-2ubuntu2.2 is installed
                Depends: libglvnd-core-dev (= 1.0.0-2ubuntu2.1) but 1.0.0-2ubuntu2.2 is installed
                Depends: libegl1 (= 1.0.0-2ubuntu2.1) but 1.0.0-2ubuntu2.2 is installed
                Depends: libgles2 (= 1.0.0-2ubuntu2.1) but 1.0.0-2ubuntu2.2 is installed
                Depends: libgl1 (= 1.0.0-2ubuntu2.1) but 1.0.0-2ubuntu2.2 is installed
                Depends: libglx0 (= 1.0.0-2ubuntu2.1) but 1.0.0-2ubuntu2.2 is installed
                Depends: libopengl0 (= 1.0.0-2ubuntu2.1) but 1.0.0-2ubuntu2.2 is installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

After running 'apt --fix-broken install' or 'apt-get install -f'

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libgles1 libglvnd-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libgles1
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libglvnd-dev
1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/14.6 kB of archives.
After this operation, 66.6 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 686678 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libgles1_1.0.0-2ubuntu2.2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libgles1:amd64 (1.0.0-2ubuntu2.2) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libgles1_1.0.0-2ubuntu2.2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLESv1_CM.so.1', which is also in package nvidia-340 340.106-0ubuntu3
Preparing to unpack .../libglvnd-dev_1.0.0-2ubuntu2.2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libglvnd-dev:amd64 (1.0.0-2ubuntu2.2) over (1.0.0-2ubuntu2.1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libglvnd-dev_1.0.0-2ubuntu2.2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLESv1_CM.so', which is also in package nvidia-340 340.106-0ubuntu3
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libgles1_1.0.0-2ubuntu2.2_amd64.deb
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libglvnd-dev_1.0.0-2ubuntu2.2_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I tried switching back to nouoveau temporarily but due to apt being messed up I can't. The control file asks for all the dependencies to be *-2.2 but when I try to upgrade it's asking for *-2.1.

UPDATE I fixed it by running

sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/libglvnd-dev_1.0.0-2ubuntu2.2_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/libgles1_1.0.0-2ubuntu2.2_amd64.deb
sudo apt -f install

Solution 1

@pibacco solution on question worked for me:

UPDATE I fixed it by running

sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/libglvnd-dev_1.0.0-2ubuntu2.2_amd64.deb 
sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/libgles1_1.0.0-2ubuntu2.2_amd64.deb 
sudo apt -f install
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

Solution 2

You need to remove packages completely by

sudo dpkg --purge --force-depends "libgles1" 
sudo dpkg --purge --force-depends "libglvnd-dev"
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get install -f

You can also see Can't solve unmet dependencies and sudo apt-get -f install fails

Comments

[Dexter Morganov]

Same problem. Your recommendations is working for me. But, libgles1_1 should be installed before ibglvnd-dev

[John P]

bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libglvnd/+bug/1791542 -- I'll be posting this in the other comment change as well.

[John P]

Your solution works for me! You should post it as an answer and mark it, unless you think there's more to it.

[pibacco]

tried that, now I have unmet dependencies for libegl1-mesa-dev : Depends: libglvnd-dev libgl1-mesa-dev : Depends: libglvnd-dev libgles2-mesa-dev : Depends: libglvnd-dev and apt-get install -f returns the same error as before

[nilesh_101]

Purge "libegl1-mesa-dev", " libgles2-mesa-dev" these packages too.

[pibacco]

did all that now i'm back to square one with egl1 and gles2 reinstalled and the initial two packages failing to process

[pibacco]

now pretty much every apt command is returning You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies: libegl1-mesa-dev : Depends: libglvnd-dev but it is not installed libgl1-mesa-dev : Depends: libglvnd-dev but it is not installed libgles2-mesa-dev : Depends: libglvnd-dev but it is not installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

[John P]

Seconded - I also immediately run into things like SDL2, Glew, etc. that depend on Mesa, and I have quite a lot of time and work invested in some of these libraries. I may periodically uninstall all of these, get security upgrades, and reinstall them. (I'm considering a bounty, but I might not be able to use the accepted solution. Then again, my circumstances don't change the substance of the question, so I shouldn't post my own, right?)

[John P]

Could I move the deb files actually causing the conflicts like trying to overwrite ...libGLESv1_CM.so.1 which is also in package nvidia-340?

[John P]

I found a bug on Launchpad that appears to be this exact issue: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libglvnd/+bug/1791542

[dannysauer]

FWIW, you can put both file paths on one --force-overwrite command line. :) I did just that with a sudo apt update before and a sudo apt --fix-broken dist-upgrade after, thinking that maybe fixing while installing the newest packages might not be a terrible idea. Maximum variables FTW! :p