On 26 May 2001 11:18:13 +0000, Haim Ashkenazi wrote:
> Ok. a little lesson about RPM's. rpm has a database of all the files
> that were installed in rpm format (not all the files on your system!).
Yes, I know. I try to avoid using the "--nodeps" (and it's first cousin,
"--force" :-) when at all possible. In this case, tho, you were right.
It installed with no problems, and away it went.
I would have thought that the original "libGLcore.so.1" would have been
provided by the XFree86, and NVidia just replaced the original file with
a symlink to their customized, proprietary one. But I guess that's not
the case.
VERY cool graphic effects! :-)
Thanks.
> so, when you try to install a new rpm it looks in this rpm's require
> field and check weather it has all the required files in this database.
> if it doesn't (like in your case, you didn't install libGLcore.so.1 from
> rpm, you installed it from tar) it issues this warning about missing
> dependencies. as I mentioned in my last reply, since you know you have
> this file then you can install it with 'rpm --nodeps -ivh tuxracer...'.
> the worse thing that could happen is that tuxracer won't run.
>
> As a rule it's not recommended to do that. do it only if you really know
> what you're doing, but in this case it's not a problem.
>
> Bye
> --
> Haim
>
> On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 08:43:45PM -0400, Michael Leone wrote:
> > On 25 May 2001 21:44:55 +0000, Haim Ashkenazi wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > did you install Nvidia's drivers as rpm or from a tar file? (just for
>curiousity, if
> > > you installed it from rpm try 'rpm -qf /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1').
> >
> > I never install NVidia's stuff from anything but tarballs. I have 3
> > different kernel versions that I boot to, for different things. I just
> > compile a driver under each kernel version.
> >
> > And it's all working; I can even run other GL based stuff ("gears" gives
> > me 500+ fps); it's just tuxracer that won't install.
> >
> >
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