Alexander Volovics wrote: > On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 06:09:54PM +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > >> Am Mo, den 22.11.2004 schrieb Alexander Volovics um 16:35: > >> > Is it still necessary to remove the (xorg-x11) Mesa-libGL and >> > Mesa-libGLU rpm's before installing the nvidia driver. > >> The NVidia driver package comes with it's own GL libraries. I would >> physically uninstall the Mesa-libGL RPM and reinstall it with switch >> "--justdb". So RPM thinks it is installed and you are not annoyed by >> future RPM actions that the missing package fails in dependency. So did >> I. > > Thanks for the reply. I will use the neat "--justdb" trick too. > > Alexander > But if rpm thinks it's installed, then it will try to install updates. If you enable automatic nightly yum it will overwrite the NVidia version. You can always re-install the NVidia manually to fix this, but it is annoying. Any better solution welcome.
