Installing nvidia driver from atrpms ... and another yum problem
Axel Thimm
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
Sat Jan 19 19:59:36 UTC 2008
Hi,
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 10:36:50PM +0300, Andrew Junev wrote:
> I kindly ask for your help!
> I have a Core2Duo CPU and NVidia 8600GT-based video adapter on my
> MythTV frontend-only machine.
> I'd like to install the latest nvidia driver using yum and atrpms.
>
> When I do a 'yum install nvidia-graphics', I get this:
>
> =============================================================================
> Package Arch Version Repository Size
> =============================================================================
> Installing:
> nvidia-graphics i386 2:169.07-23 atrpms 2.9 k
> Removing:
> kernel i686 2.6.23.1-10.fc7 installed 44 M
> Installing for dependencies:
> kernel i586 2.6.23.12-52.fc7 updates 16 M
> nvidia-graphics-devices noarch 1.0-5.fc7 atrpms 2.8 k
> nvidia-graphics-helpers i386 0.0.22-23.fc7 atrpms 5.5 k
> nvidia-graphics169.07 i386 1:169.07-94.fc7 atrpms 1.9 M
> nvidia-graphics169.07-kmdl-2.6.23.12-52.fc7 i586 1:169.07-94.fc7 atrpms 2.6 M
> nvidia-graphics169.07-libs i386 1:169.07-94.fc7 atrpms 5.0 M
>
> Transaction Summary
> =============================================================================
> Install 7 Package(s)
> Update 0 Package(s)
> Remove 1 Package(s)
>
> Total download size: 25 M
> Is this ok [y/N]:
>
> I got a bit confiused, as yum wants to remove i686 kernel and
> update it with the i586 one.
There is some kind of bug in F8's and F7's yum that sometimes makes it
pick i586 instead of i686 packages. You can help yum by specifying the
arch explicitly like for example
yum install kernel.i686
> So I decided not to continue with the
> installation. Then I tried to run 'yum update' without installing the
> new driver and I got the following error:
>
> --> Processing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.8-34.fc7 for package: fuse-kmdl-2.6.23.8-34.fc7
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Missing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.8-34.fc7 is needed by package fuse-kmdl-2.6.23.8-34.fc7
That's another bug that has been fixed (I think) in the latest yum. So
do a
yum install yum
first and then try again.
> So I seem to stuck with no new nvidia driver and no updates.
> Of course I can download and compile the driver from NVidia web site.
> But I'd like to use yum to have it done more or less automatically,
> and I'd like my updates to work...
>
> Could you please point me to the right direction? I'm really lost with
> these dependency problems...
>
> # uname -a
> Linux frontend1 2.6.23.8-34.fc7 #1 SMP Thu Nov 22 23:05:33 EST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> Thanks!
Do the following:
yum install yum kernel.i686 yum-plugin-kmdl
Then do a
yum install nvidia-graphics
--
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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