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virati

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Registered: 2008-04-14

Posts: 81

Swapping in nvidia-beta for nvidia

I just got a GTX 260 (replaced a 8800gts that worked fine with current repo drivers) and i found out i need to install the beta drivers from AUR. nvidia-utils-beta interferes with nvidia-utils but i can't remove nvidia utils without apparently breaking all the games that depend on libgl. How do i go about swapping nvidia-beta drivers in for the current ones?

ghostHack

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From: Bristol UK

Registered: 2008-02-29

Posts: 261

Re: Swapping in nvidia-beta for nvidia

pacman -Rd nvidia-utils
pacman -U /path/to/nvidia-utils-beta*.tar.gz

The -d option tells pacman not to do any dependency checking when removing the package.  This is safe in this case since the nvidia-utils-beta will have the libgl as part of the package.

Last edited by ghostHack (2008-09-12 19:40:52)

virati

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Registered: 2008-04-14

Posts: 81

Re: Swapping in nvidia-beta for nvidia

I was afraid it would be that simple. Thanks!