On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 23:09, Peter Backlund wrote: > > How does one go about removing these RPM's from the system?? As the > > system will not let me due to other packages which depend on it. I'd > > prefer to stick to the old method, else the *.src.rpm's are available. > > As I don't wish to wait for new RPM's to become available when new > > kernels are released. I'd like to rebuild it when needed. > > Well, if you want to remove them, just run rpm -e on them. The names of > the rpms installed will be evident by doing rpm -qa \*nvidia\*. You will > however need to use --nodeps to uninstall nvidia-glx, and later > re-install XFree86-MEsa-libGL to satisfy the libGL.so.1 dependency. > > That said, there is really no need to uninstall in order to upgrade. > Whenever a new kernel comes out, you rebuild the src.rpm and install the > resulting kernel-module-nvidia-driver rpm (note: you don't have to > re-install nvidida-glx when you upgrade the kernel!). > > Hope this helps. > > /Peter > Thankyou Peter, will give that a try. Wolf
