Problem upgrading nvidia in Fedora-19
Neal Becker
ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 19 11:36:55 UTC 2013
Frédéric Bron wrote:
>> A version conflict is making it impossible to upgrade my system to the
>> latest kernel and/or native nvidia drivers. Usually these conflicts
>> clear up after a few days, when the repositories come into sync but this
>> one has been around for quite a while.
>
> I had the same issue and got fed up with waiting for the conflicts to
> be solved. Here is what I did:
> 1. removed all nvidia packages:
> $ yum remove *nvidia*
> 2. rebooted
> 3. reinstalled nvidia packages:
> $ yum install akmod-nvidia nvidia-settings nvidia-xconfig
> 4. rebooted
>
> Cheers,
>
> Frédéric
And interestingly, I found dnf did the update without issues. That's +1 for
dnf.
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