How use "yum" to install nvidia driver from atrpms?

Alexander Dalloz ad+lists at uni-x.org
Thu Nov 18 17:15:35 UTC 2004


Am Do, den 18.11.2004 schrieb Hardy Merrill um 17:57:

> I know that atrpms.net has nvidia drivers on their
> site:
> 
>    http://atrpms.net/name/nvidia-graphics/
> 
> I'd like to use "yum" to install the the rpms, but I
> have a few questions:
> 
>   I downloaded a yum.conf from the fedora faq, so I
>   think (can't honestly remember) that atrpms is in
>   there.

http://atrpms.net/dist/fc3/atrpms-package-config/

Is an installable RPM which contains preconfigured yum repository
settings for using ATrpms.net.

>   1. How do I use yum to install nvidia rpm's from
>      atrpms.net?

As each other package using yum: yum install <name>
Please see "man yum".

>   2. *Which* nvidia rpm('s) do I need from there?
>      They have 
>        * nvidia-graphics-devel-1.0-3.rhfc3.at.i386.rpm

The devel package is not needed for just using 2D/3D acceleration usage.

yum install nvidia-graphics6629

The rest is done by yum.

> Hardy Merrill

Alexander


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