Is RPMfusion on strike? [SOLVED -- at least for me]

[William Case]

On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 05:09 -0400, William Case wrote:
> Hi gilpel;
> 
> I am up early in the morning and adding just a bit more.  I really think
> you should be using yumex.  Its a graphical front end for yum and keeps
> everything visual, simple and informative.  yum install yumex.
> However ...
> 
> On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 00:55 -0400, William Case wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 10:00 +0500, gilpel at altern.org wrote:
> > > > Hi gilpel;
> 
> > 
> > "185.18.31" is not a package, but a package version.
> > 
> > All that I can see is that you have some mis-matched files, or, a
> > 185.18.14 and a 185.18.31 file and akmod-nvidia is picking the wrong
> > one.
> > 
> > 
> > yum list installed xorg-x11-drv-nvidia*
> > yum list installed kmod-nvidia*
> > yum list installed akmod-nvidia
> > 
> > yum deplist kmod-nvidia-2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11.x86_64.x86_64 might tell
> > you something
> > 
> > I would clean everything out and start over
> > 
> > yum remove kmod-nvidia* akmod-nvidia
> >  
> > yum install kmod-nvidia* akmod-nvidia
> >  
> > Or just try
> > yum reinstall kmod-nvidia* akmod-nvidia
> >  
> 
> Using globs will let yum show you every version of a file that you have
> installed.  Here is what you should get.
> 
> ]# yum list installed akmod-nvidia*
> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
> Installed Packages
> akmod-nvidia.x86_64         185.18.14-1.fc11
> @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
> 
> ]# yum list installed kmod-nvidia*
> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
> Installed Packages
> kmod-nvidia-2.6.29.6-217.2.3.fc11.x86_64.x86_64
>                   185.18.14-1.fc11.3
> @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
> kmod-nvidia-2.6.29.6-217.2.7.fc11.x86_64.x86_64
>                   185.18.14-1.fc11.5
> @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
> kmod-nvidia-2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11.x86_64.x86_64
>                   185.18.14-1.fc11.6
> @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
> 
> ]# yum list installed xorg-x11-drv-nvidia*
> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
> Installed Packages
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64        185.18.14-3.fc11
> @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64   185.18.14-3.fc11
> @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
> 
> You will notice all packages are version 186.18.14-something.
> If packages with another version number (e.g. 185.18.31) shows up,
> remove them.  It would be better to remove everything like I have
> suggested and re-install.  Make sure those previous header files, akmod,
> kernel-devel have been removed.  And akmod and kernel-devel have been
> re-installed.
When I say remove them, I mean yum remove NOT rm.
-- 
Regards Bill
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