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#1 2009-04-24 10:05:38

Cracker
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Registered: 2009-03-26
Posts: 5

Catalyst driver & aur question

Hi there!

First I must say i'm totaly new in arch world. I have ATI Radeon HD3430 graphics card and want to install catalyst driver (moved from official repos to aur) but have had no luck so far. I red wiki but i just cant figure out how to install that. Can i get some help about it? Tnx in advance!

Edit: For now i have open source ati driver installed.

Last edited by Cracker (2009-04-24 10:06:39)

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#2 2009-04-24 10:39:00

Tib05
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From: France
Registered: 2007-07-02
Posts: 31

Re: Catalyst driver & aur question

A great way to easily install AUR packages is to use Yaourt !

See  http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Yaourt to install yaourt.

It works like Pacman, and it can install AUR packages :

#  yaourt -S catalyst

for example ...

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#3 2009-04-24 10:44:45

tomk
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Registered: 2004-07-21
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Re: Catalyst driver & aur question

Standard advice (sadly, often ignored): learn to use the AUR and ABS (Arch Build System) first, then try yaourt if you still want to.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_User_Guidelines
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ABS

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#4 2009-04-24 14:50:52

Cracker
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Registered: 2009-03-26
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Re: Catalyst driver & aur question

Tib05 wrote:

A great way to easily install AUR packages is to use Yaourt !

See  http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Yaourt to install yaourt.

It works like Pacman, and it can install AUR packages :

#  yaourt -S catalyst

for example ...

OK, but do i need to do some extra configuration, or this is it? Do i have to uninstall my old ati driver (the open source one)?

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#5 2009-04-24 18:25:26

pseudonomous
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Registered: 2008-04-23
Posts: 349

Re: Catalyst driver & aur question

Cracker wrote:

OK, but do i need to do some extra configuration, or this is it? Do i have to uninstall my old ati driver (the open source one)?

Yes, you will have to remove xf86-video-ati and also probably libgl, and possibly other packages that conflict with the catalyst driver and catalyst-utils packages.  I'm not sure if there's a more elegent way to do this, but I recently switched from the Catalyst driver to the ATI driver and I did:

pacman -Rsc catalyst catalyst-utils

which uninstalled something like 10gigs worth of programs, did

pacman -S xorg xf86-video-ati

then reinstalled all my other old programs, just don't clean you're pacman cache before re-installing or you'll be downloading stuff forever.

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