Re: nvidia src rpm

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On Jun 10, 2004 at 20:48, Wayne Steenburg in a soothing rage wrote:

>I'm having some difficulty using the nvidia src rpm from livna.org.
>when I run: 
>
>[root@FC2-Work wayne]# rpmbuild --rebuild -ta
>nvidia-driver-1.0.5336-0.lvn.3.1.src.rpm
>
>I get an error: 
>error: Failed build dependencies:
>        kernel-source = 2.6.6was.1 is needed by                     
>        nvidia-driver-1.0.5336-0.lvn.3.1
>
>I'm running a custom kernel with the extracted tarball in ~/linux-2.6.6.
>I tried copying the contents of that folder to /usr/src/linux-2.6.6was.1
>thinking that since that's where the default kernel source is. I'm
>guessing that it's looking for a corresponding rpm instead. I'm not
>really sure though, if someone could help shine some light on this for 
>me, I would be grateful.
rpmbuild is part of the rpm set of utilities that rely on
a database to tell is what is installed. You never installed
the kernel-source, ergo you get a dependency error. You may
have to install the nvidia rpm and then edit the spec file
to use your source.

N.Emile...
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