On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 19:09 +0000, D. D. Brierton wrote: > I use the RPM packages of the NVIDIA drivers from rpm.livna.org. The > latest version of the drivers hit livna.testing today, and I'm trying to > install them, but yum won't let me. I can't quite get my head round what > is going on. This is what I have installed (excluding a couple of > irrelevant lines): > > $ rpm -qa | grep "kernel\|nvidia" | sort > > kernel-2.6.10-1.770_FC3 > kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.10-1.770_FC3-1.0.6629-0.lvn.6.3 > nvidia-glx-1.0.6629-0.lvn.6.3 > > I'll edit the output of the next command to show you just the relevant > bits: > > $ yum list available *nvidia* > > kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.10-1.770_FC3.i6 1.0.7167-0.lvn.1.3 livna-testing > nvidia-glx.i586 1.0.7167-0.lvn.1.3 livna-testing > > Now it seems to me that I ought to able to do a straightforward update > of nvidia-glx and kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.10-1.770_FC3. However, any of > these invocations of yum: > > sudo yum update > sudo yum update nvidia-glx > sudo yum update kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.10-1.770_FC3 > sudo yum update nvidia-glx kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.10-1.770_FC3 > > fail with the same error: > > Error: Unable to satisfy dependencies > Error: Package kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.10-1.770_FC3 needs nvidia-glx = 0:1.0.6629, this is not available. > > I've attached the full messages from the above four commands to this > email in case it is of further help. > > Am I invoking yum incorrectly, is yum doing something wrong, or are the > packages broken? I'm certain this has worked in the past ... Does this work? sudo yum install \ kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.10-1.770_FC3-1.0.7167-0.lvn.1.3 \ nvidia-glx-1.0.7167-0.lvn.1.3 ? If not, try switching to runlevel 3 (telinit 3) and doing this: # rpm -e kernel-module-nvidia # yum install kernel-module-nvidia Warning: I use neither livna packages nor nvidia graphics cards so if this doesn't work your X may be horribly broken. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
