[Error] initialising Ubuntu 23.10 container fails due to libgl1-mesa-glx no longer being available

[flexiondotorg]

Describe the bug

When an Ubuntu container is initialised by entering it for the first time, distrobox attempts to install libgl1-mesa-glx. libgl1-mesa-glx has been a transitional package for a while and is now obsolete from Ubuntu 23.10 and onwards. As a result, initialising Ubuntu 23.10 containers fails.

To Reproduce

Create an Ubuntu 23.10 container and try to enter it.

distrobox create --image ubuntu:23.10 --name dev-mantic --pull
distrobox enter dev-mantic -- true

The following is output:

Starting container...                  	 [ OK ]
Installing basic packages...           	 Error: An error occurred

Expected behavior

Running the following should create a functioning Ubuntu 23.10 container.

distrobox create --image ubuntu:23.10 --name dev-mantic --pull
distrobox enter dev-mantic -- true

Logs

Run podman logs -f dev-mantic, and you'll see:

Package libgl1-mesa-glx is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'libgl1-mesa-glx' has no installation candidate

Desktop:

• Using podman
• podman version 4.7.2
• distrobox: 1.5.0.2
• NixOS 23.05 (Stoat)
• Via nixpkgs.

Additional context

Installing libgl1 and libglx-mesa0 instead of libgl1-mesa-glx will result in equivalent behaviour and should work on Ubuntu 18.04 and newer.

[flexiondotorg]

See #1005

[89luca89]

Fixed

[Sagor0078]

is this fixed?