Comment 22 for bug 148586

I suspect that it tries to puts the 386 module in because it's the first one
in alphanumberical order. It looks like that for some reason, it's not
checking the entire list; instead, it's just installing the first one on the
list.

This may be a dpkg issue, not apt-get. I always use the aptitude and I'm
getting similar behavior.

On Sunday, October 14, 2007 7:26:50 am Oliver Grawert wrote:
> apparently some nvidia-glx users have a similar prob (with a Provides:
> in l-r-m instead of l-u-m), during examination i found the following:
>
> ogra@laptop:~$ LANG=C sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx
> linux-restricted-modules-2.6.22-14-generic ...
> The following extra packages will be installed:
> linux-image-2.6.22-14-386 linux-restricted-modules-2.6.22-14-386
> nvidia-kernel-common
>
> versus .....
>
> ogra@laptop:~$ LANG=C sudo apt-get install
> linux-restricted-modules-2.6.22-14-generic nvidia-glx ...
> The following extra packages will be installed:
> nvidia-kernel-common
>
> apparently apt-get wants a special order to make sure the right deps are
> there, that doesnt seem right to me, assignong to apt-get as well.
>
> ** Also affects: apt (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New