Re: How use "yum" to install nvidia driver from atrpms?

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Am Do, den 18.11.2004 schrieb Axel Thimm um 18:24:

> > yum install nvidia-graphics6629
> > 
> > The rest is done by yum.
> 
> This can sometime go wrong, because the nvidia-graphics6629 requires
> _some_ kernel-module-nvidia-graphics6629 to be installed, but there
> are more than one per arch (at least two per supported kernel, non-smp
> and smp).
> 
> So sometimes yum/apt start suggesting installing a kernel along with
> the requested kernel module rpm.
> 
> This cannot be easily solved (imagine a system with multiple kernels
> installed). yum/apt could default to the running kernel, and there is
> indeed some extension to apt that allows this (keywords are: Panu
> and AllowDuplicates).
> 
> So apt/yum need to be additionally told about which kernel to install
> kernel-module-foo like
> 
> apt-get install kernel-module-foo-<kernel> foo
> 
> if <kernel> is the running kernel then `uname -r` (like above) is enough.

Very certainly a helpful clarification for users of your packages /
repository. Thanks!

Alexander


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