ATI driver update problems (old driver for XFree86 4.3.x to new driver for Xorg 6.8.1)
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Mon Feb 28 16:25:46 UTC 2005
Sven wrote:
> I did that because of the first error message "xxx conflicts with xxxx"
> I wanted to remove the old driver first, because rpm -Uh --force
> file_name did end with that message too.
> So i cannot install the new package before removing the old one.
> I'm also thinking like you, but as i said i want to have Xorg and all
> the other rpms working after the update.
If package "fglrx" supersedes "fglrx-glc22" then really the packager
should have included an "Obsoletes: fglrx-glc22" tag in package "fglrx".
This would have allowed an upgrade to "fglrx" to remove the old
"fglrx-glc22" package.
One way you can check that "fglrx" can safely replace "fglrx-glc22"
would be to check what the two packages provide.
First, look at what your installed "fglrx-glc22" package provides:
$ rpm -q --provides fglrx-glc22
Then see what your new package provides:
$ rpm -qp --provides fglrx_6_8_0-8.10.19-1.i386.rpm
If the latter is a superset of the former then you *should* be OK to get
rid of the old one and add the new one in as a replacement.
Paul.
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