package nvidia-180-libvdpau None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/nvidia-180-libvdpau.list] failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libvdpau.so.1', which is also in package nvidia-glx-177

oh wow. now i am freaking out.

what i innitially was doing was adding the mythtv weekly repos and did my first update to the system. Now after the nvidia package not updating there is no more mythtv on my computer! When i try to go into the menu and multimedia there is no mythtv frontend! I do not know what to do.

trying to run apt-get install gives me
quaa@myth:~$ sudo apt-get install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libavahi-qt3-1 libarts1c2a kdelibs4c2a libparse-yapp-perl fftw2 gcc-4.2-base
  liblualib50 libmpich1.0gf libmyth-python python-xml libimage-size-perl
  libcarp-clan-perl libcdaudio1 libgfortran2 libxml-xql-perl kdelibs-data
  liblua50 perlmagick
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

removing nvidia-glx-177 before installing 180 should solve the problem. I'll make sure that this doesn't happen any more.

This bug was fixed in the package nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 - 180.29-0ubuntu1

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nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 (180.29-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (LP: #327690).
    * Fixed a problem in VDPAU that prevented the overlay-based presentation
      queue from being used on displays connected by component video.
    * Fixed various problems in VDPAU that caused visual corruption when
      decoding certain MPEG-2 video streams.
    * Fixed a crash in VDPAU caused by certain invalid MPEG-2 streams, in
      64-bit drivers for some GPUs.
    * Fixed an X driver performance problem on integrated GPUs.
    * Fixed a stability problem with OpenGL applications using FSAA.
    * Fixed an initialization problem that caused some AGP GPUs to be used
      in PCI compatibility mode.
    * Fixed a bug that could result in stability problems after changing
      clock settings via the Coolbits interface.
    * debian/control.in: add dependency on nvidia-glx-180 to nvidia-180-libvdpau
      since nvidia-180-libvdpau can't be installed if other nvidia-glx-* packages
      contain vdpau (LP: #326720).

 -- Alberto Milone (tseliot) <email address hidden> Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:29:09 +0100