Using yum to update livna nvidia packages?

[Paul Howarth]

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 19:09 +0000, D. D. Brierton wrote:
> I use the RPM packages of the NVIDIA drivers from rpm.livna.org. The
> latest version of the drivers hit livna.testing today, and I'm trying to
> install them, but yum won't let me. I can't quite get my head round what
> is going on. This is what I have installed (excluding a couple of
> irrelevant lines):
> 
> $ rpm -qa | grep "kernel\|nvidia" | sort
> 
> kernel-2.6.10-1.770_FC3
> kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.10-1.770_FC3-1.0.6629-0.lvn.6.3
> nvidia-glx-1.0.6629-0.lvn.6.3
> 
> I'll edit the output of the next command to show you just the relevant
> bits:
> 
> $ yum list available *nvidia*
> 
> kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.10-1.770_FC3.i6 1.0.7167-0.lvn.1.3     livna-testing
> nvidia-glx.i586                          1.0.7167-0.lvn.1.3     livna-testing
> 
> Now it seems to me that I ought to able to do a straightforward update
> of nvidia-glx and kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.10-1.770_FC3. However, any of
> these invocations of yum:
> 
> sudo yum update
> sudo yum update nvidia-glx
> sudo yum update kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.10-1.770_FC3
> sudo yum update nvidia-glx kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.10-1.770_FC3
> 
> fail with the same error:
> 
> Error: Unable to satisfy dependencies
> Error: Package kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.10-1.770_FC3 needs nvidia-glx = 0:1.0.6629, this is not available.
> 
> I've attached the full messages from the above four commands to this
> email in case it is of further help.
> 
> Am I invoking yum incorrectly, is yum doing something wrong, or are the
> packages broken? I'm certain this has worked in the past ...

Does this work?

sudo yum install \
	kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.10-1.770_FC3-1.0.7167-0.lvn.1.3 \
	nvidia-glx-1.0.7167-0.lvn.1.3

?

If not, try switching to runlevel 3 (telinit 3) and doing this:

# rpm -e kernel-module-nvidia
# yum install kernel-module-nvidia

Warning: I use neither livna packages nor nvidia graphics cards so if
this doesn't work your X may be horribly broken.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>