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Kottalizer

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Registered: 2012-01-27

Posts: 5

[SOLVED] libgl & pam_fprint

Hi,

I just installed my Arch Linux operating system and it's running very nicely! Everything has been pretty much straight-forward thanks to the excellent documentation, mostly in the wiki.

My computer has a Nvidia card and hence I installed the packages nvidia and nvidia-utils according to the related wiki page. Worked fine after a reboot.

However, the Nvidia wiki page states that libgl should be removed to avoid a package conflict. I tried to install the two above mentioned packages without removing libgl and that didn't work. After I had removed libgl I could successfully install the packages and get the drivers up and running.

Now I want to configure my fingerprint reader. I'm following this wiki page and everything worked smoothly until the step that's hyperlinked. When I tried to 'yaourt -Sb pam_fprint' I got the following message:

error: target not found: pam_fprint
missing dependency for ati-dri : libgl=7.11.2
missing dependency for intel-dri : libgl=7.11.2
missing dependency for mach64-dri : libgl=7.11.2
missing dependency for mga-dri : libgl=7.11.2
missing dependency for r128-dri : libgl=7.11.2
missing dependency for savage-dri : libgl=7.11.2
missing dependency for sis-dri : libgl=7.11.2
missing dependency for tdfx-dri : libgl=7.11.2

If I try to install libgl, I must remove nvidia-utils, and that doesn't seem like an adequate solution to me. What should I do?

- Martin

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Actually, never mind! I solved it by installing 'pam_fprint-git' instead of 'pam_fprint' (that package didn't exist, as the pasted output told me). Updated the wiki page accordingly.

Last edited by Kottalizer (2012-02-15 20:00:26)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED] libgl & pam_fprint

Do you have all these -dri packages installed? Why?

Paramvir

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Registered: 2009-08-06

Posts: 135

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Re: [SOLVED] libgl & pam_fprint

Hey Karol - Just noticed this thread as I too have just got this so called low end nvidia gt430 card with 4gb ram uffff... anyway - these same files as mentioned in the post are probably installed as dependencies with libgl as pacman -Qi gives this info - my point being since for nvidia we removed libgl - these dri files can also be removed - just wanted to get a heads up on this.

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sankeytm

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From: California

Registered: 2012-03-05

Posts: 28

Re: [SOLVED] libgl & pam_fprint

I have this same problem (because of AMD Catalyst) and it seems these drivers are not needed, but I am NOT SURE. I am curious as to why the instructions on the arch wiki for installing AMD graphics drivers says libgl is okay to remove, but does not mention the resulting dependency errors.

Otherwise, the system is perfectly functional Just a little less pretty when updating.

Edit: confirmed, it's okay to remove them.

Last edited by sankeytm (2012-03-14 08:06:32)