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Julbak

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Registered: 2026-06-19

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nvidia-580xx-dkms downloading issue with yay and git

Greetings

i was trying to install Legacy NVIDIA driver for my GTX 1070, i tried to download nvidia-580xx-dkms via "yay"

yay downloads and tries to install `nvidia-580xx-utils` instead. Here's the output:

$ [ME@myarch ~]$ yay -S nvidia-580xx-dkms
AUR Explicit (1): nvidia-580xx-dkms-580.159.04-1
:: (1/1) Downloaded PKGBUILD: nvidia-580xx-utils
1 nvidia-580xx-utils (Installed) (Build Files Exist)
==> Packages to cleanBuild? 

It says "Downloaded PKGBUILD: nvidia-580xx-utils", even though I explicitly requested `nvidia-580xx-dkms`

also tried to download via git, Here's the output

[ME@myarch ~]$ git clone [url]https://aur.archlinux.org/nvidia-580xx-dkms.git[/url]
Cloning into 'nvidia-580xx-dkms'...
warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository.
hint: Using 'master' as the name for the initial branch. This default branch name
hint: will change to "main" in Git 3.0. To configure the initial branch name
hint: to use in all of your new repositories, which will suppress this warning,
hint: call:
hint:
hint:   git config --global init.defaultBranch <name>
hint:
hint: Names commonly chosen instead of 'master' are 'main', 'trunk' and
hint: 'development'. The just-created branch can be renamed via this command:
hint:
hint:   git branch -m <name>
hint:

**System info:**
- Arch Linux (up to date)
- GTX 1070 (Pascal architecture)
-  yay v12.6.0

Thanks in advance!

Last edited by Julbak (Today 11:35:04)

WorMzy

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Re: nvidia-580xx-dkms downloading issue with yay and git

Please use code tags when posting terminal output.

Mod note: moving to AUR Issues.

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: nvidia-580xx-dkms downloading issue with yay and git

nvidia-580xx-utils is the "base package" that will eventually create all of the distinct ones that are needed for proper driver operation, this isn't an error and absolutely what you want, from the packages generated by the nvidia-580xx-utils baseline you will want to at least have the dkms and the utils package installed, optionally the corresponding lib32- versions of the utils package if you need multilib support.

Note that this is also reflected in the AUR UI https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nvidia-580xx-dkms The "Package Base" identifier which is also where the actual git repo and history is located.

Last edited by V1del (Today 13:51:37)