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... -- Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org) Switch to: http://www.speakeasy.net/refer/190653 When the blind lead the blind they will both fall over the cliff. -- Chinese proverb 21:50:53 up 8 days, 1:46, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
