nvidia and xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL

[Doncho N. Gunchev]

On 2005 01 04 (Tuesday) 16:25, S. Bandyopadhyay wrote:
> On 11:56am Jan 4, 2005, Przemyslaw Gawronski wrote
> 
> >  Hi Fedora users
> >  
> >  The subject of nvidia driver was up several times. I've managed to
> >  install it correctly according to sugestions given on the list.
> >  
> >  But, one of the steps was to uninstall xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL rpm. When
...
> grab the latest xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL rpm and after you
> install nvidia do:
> 
> rpm -Uvh --justdb xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-X.Y.Z.i386.rpm
> 
> this will prevent yum from installing xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL. 
> 
> of course anytime the xorg updates come out and yum
> automatically updates your packages you have to uninstall
> xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL and re-install nvidia and do 
> rpm --justdb. 
> 

    Why not just read a bit more at www.fedorafaq.org how you can use
rpm.livna.org's package and break nothing?

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