new nvidia driver 53.28 fails

[Philip Wyett]

On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 11:02, Aurelien Bompard wrote:
> > Before installing the nvidia drivers 4496 or the latest 5328 you must
> > first remove XFree86-Mesa-libGL to avoid conflicts.
> 
> Apparently, I have to use --nodeps to remove this package. Wich means that
> if I want to install packages which require it afterwards, I'll probably
> have to install them with --nodeps too :-(
> What about renaming libGL.so.1 ? This is dirty, but installing and removing
> with --nodeps is equally dirty IMHO.
> What would be the best solution ?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Aurelien

Indeed, XFree86-Mesa-libGL should be removed with '--nodeps'. Yes, the
dependency game here is not so nice. I have thought the best way to go
if Mr Harris issued an XFree86 update for Fedora or an application
depended on the lib...  Would be to install it again go back to the 'nv'
driver, do what you have todo, remove XFree86-Mesa-libGL again and
re-install the binary 'nvidia' driver once more. A real pain no doubt,
but as clean as least troublesome as it's probably gonna get. :/

Regards

Philip Wyett

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