Using yum to update livna nvidia packages? - solution

[Gerald Thompson]

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 ...
>
>TIA, Darren
>
Hi Darren;

I had the same issue; here is my solution
yum remove *nvidia*
- that removes all kernel modules and the nvidia-glx

yum install kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.10-1.770_FC3
- that installed the 1.0.7167-0 kernel-module and the nvidia-glx as a 
dependency
- of course you won't have the kernel-module-nvidia if you try to boot 
up in an old kernel

Sincerely,
Gerald