Quote Originally Posted by Iporem View Post
The problem is that libgl1-mesa-glx seems to be broken in some ways in vanilla Knoppix:
Code:
apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree 
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libgl1-mesa-glx : PreDepends: multiarch-support but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
I keep looking for a solution.
I hope the next Knoppix version will have this problem solved.
I don't think you have shown this to be a Knoppix-specific problem. Which it would be if Knoppix, for example, relied on some older packages, and could not easily be upgraded without breaking. On the contrary, you started out with a version conflict among packages to be installed.

Maybe this seems like nit-picking for you - you have a Knoppix that does not perform as it should, so there is obviously something broken in Knoppix, isn't it? Needs not be at all. If it belongs to kernel development, it should be fixed there, if it belongs to Debian development, it should be fixed there. Dependency problems among installed packages will be resolved in the next release, but there is no guarantee that non-installed packages will be conflict-free. Klaus K can't postpone a release until all problems with all possible-to-install packages are solved.. or rather, maybe he can, but we don't want him to - we can't wait indefinitely.

And if the problem comes from package development/restructuring, which I think may be the case here, the simplest solution may be to find somebody who has got this working, and copy that setup.