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mikej_96

Member

Registered: 2010-03-19

Posts: 37

nvidia-utils help

Hello,

My current setup requires me to run the latest nvidia drivers. I have downloaded and installed them from nvidia's website and have been running without issue. My problem is that the 'nvidia-utils' package now wants to be upgraded, and the upgrade wants to install files that are already installed from the stock nvidia driver.

When I try to upgrade I get the following error:

(435/435) checking for file conflicts               [#####################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA.so.195.36.15 exists in filesystem
nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so.195.36.15 exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Is the nvida-utils package required by other packages? If so, how can I tell? I looked here: http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra … dia-utils/ and it says that it is only required by the 'nvidia' package....

Can this be safely removed?

flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2,160

Re: nvidia-utils help

Do a

pacman -Qo /usr/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA.so.195.36.15

If it belongs to a package, remove it. Then update.

loafer

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From: the pub

Registered: 2009-04-14

Posts: 1,772

Re: nvidia-utils help

It's best not to install without pacman.  If you need another version use ABS and modify the PKGBUILD.

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mikej_96

Member

Registered: 2010-03-19

Posts: 37

Re: nvidia-utils help

Is there a way to tell if nvidia-utils is a dependency for other packages installed on my sytem?

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: nvidia-utils help

> Is there a way to tell if nvidia-utils is a dependency for other packages installed on my sytem?
Sure: 'pacman -Qi nvidia-utils | grep Required'. If you get "Required By    : None" then pacman know of no deps.
You can also 'pacman -Rs nvidia-utils' and pacman either will remove the package and all the other unneeded packages or will tell you that some package needs nvidia-utils.

> It's best not to install without pacman.
+1 The nVidia webpage will tell which ones you need for your card, but you use install the drivers via pacman.