FC3: Mesa and 'nvidia' driver

[Neal D. Becker]

Alexander Volovics wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 06:09:54PM +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> 
>> Am Mo, den 22.11.2004 schrieb Alexander Volovics um 16:35:
>  
>> > Is it still necessary to remove the (xorg-x11) Mesa-libGL and
>> > Mesa-libGLU rpm's before installing the nvidia driver.
>  
>> The NVidia driver package comes with it's own GL libraries. I would
>> physically uninstall the Mesa-libGL RPM and reinstall it with switch
>> "--justdb". So RPM thinks it is installed and you are not annoyed by
>> future RPM actions that the missing package fails in dependency. So did
>> I.
> 
> Thanks for the reply. I will use the neat "--justdb" trick too.
> 
> Alexander
> 

But if rpm thinks it's installed, then it will try to install updates.  If
you enable automatic nightly yum it will overwrite the NVidia version.

You can always re-install the NVidia manually to fix this, but it is
annoying.  Any better solution welcome.