May be you can use rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs <nvidia_package> ? HTH Regards David Ballester Montolio Responsable Sistemas y Comunicaciones Kern Pharma, S.L. www.kernpharma.com "My hardware is like Air Conditioned, runs better with windows closed" GNU! > > Wolf, as I wrote , I can not remove the nvidia-module-kernel, rpm -e > says it's > not installed and rpm -U says it is. > I'll try your suggestion but I dont like orphans in the system and > would prefer to get the rpm out first. > > david