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.