On 15 February 2012 22:37, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wednesday 15 February 2012 12:54:30 Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 02/15/2012 12:38 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >> > (b) do a "yum install akmod-nvidia". >> >> Back when I installed akmod-nvidia, it needed either kernel-devel or >> kernel-headers, if not both. (It's been several years, so my memory's a >> tad fuzzy.) However, for whatever reason, it didn't list them as >> dependencies, which meant that you just had to know about them to get it >> working right. Is that still true, or has that been corrected? > > I don't know, but I assume yum will pull in any and all dependencies required > to make it work, including the kernel header packages and the development > toolchain for compilation. > > On all machines where I had akmod-nvidia installed, I usually also had all > that other stuff already installed beforehand, so I am not sure if akmod would > drag it in if it weren't already there. > > But even if it doesn't work automatically, the OP can always do it like this: > > yum install kernel-headers kernel-devel > yum groupinstall "Development Tools" > yum install akmod-nvidia > > That would probably cover all cases. :-) Also, IIRC, the OP had already > installed the nVidia's .run package which also needs all that stuff, so it's > likely he already has it all installed. > $ rpm -qR akmods|grep devel kernel-devel ...so yes it's listed as a dependency and should get pulled in by yum. -- imalone -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
