Using yum to update livna nvidia packages? - solution

D. D. Brierton darren at dzr-web.com
Wed Mar 16 13:58:42 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 03:19 -0700, Gerald Thompson wrote:

> 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

Yep, I know that will work. I was trying to determine whether there was
a way of getting yum to do the update for us. This isn't the most user-
friendly way of presenting this stuff to newbies.

Best, Darren

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