On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 19:18, Marc Williams wrote: > On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 10:51, Aurelien GROSDIDIER wrote: > > Following the procedure described in previous mails, i "rpm -e > > XFree86-Mesa-libGL" before installing the proprietary nvidia drivers. > > > > But now, apt-get complains about broken packages (which is right, huh?). > > Is there any way to avoid that ? > > Yes, I also noticed that after I had removed the Mesa-libGL package that > I couldn't install the xawtv RPM. It was complaining about not finding > libGL.so.1. So even if the nVidia script does install a libGL.so.1 > somewhere, it's not where the xawtv RPM expects to find it. And I > suspect that this same failed dependency might happen with other > packages I might want to install. > > To fix it I > 1) uninstalled the nVidia script (nvidia-installer --uninstall) > 2) reinstalled XFree86-Mesa-libGL > 3) reinstalled the nVidia script once again > 4) simply removed the files from /usr/X11R6/lib/tls/libGL* What one probably should do(except asking nvidia to provide rpms) is to uninstall XFree86-Mesa-libGL , install nvidia drivers, install XFree86-Mesa-libGL with the --justdb rpm flag. -- Vennlig hilsen/Best Regards Nils Olav Selåsdal System Engineer UtelSystems a/s w w w . u t e l s y s t e m s . c o m
