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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