[PlanetCCRMA] FC4, nvidia drivers and apt mess

[Nathaniel Virgo]

Hi,

I've got myself in a bit of a mess with apt again by not knowing what 
I'm doing.  I've installed the nvidia drivers by doing apt-get install 
nvidia-graphics (see below), but this didn't seem to have any effect and 
after doing a bit of reading around I guess this is because they're not 
built for the Planet CCRMA kernel or something.  The problem is that I 
now don't know how to remove them -- if I do apt-get remove 
nvidia-graphics it just wants to remove that one package and not the 
actual kernel-related packages that it caused to be installed, whereas 
if I try to remove one of the other packages it seems to want to install 
a new kernel and a different nvidia driver. 

What do I do to remove the nvidia packages so that I can use the 
installer from the nvidia web site?  Or is it safe to do that with the 
nvidia packages still installed?  Or is there a way to get it all 
working via apt with the Planet CCRMA kernel?




Incidentally, to get nvidia-graphics to install in the first place I had 
to comment out support for livna rpms in the file in 
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ provided by medley-package-config -- without 
doing that I got this conflict:

# apt-get install nvidia-graphics
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 nvidia-glx 
nvidia-graphics-devices nvidia-graphics-helpers nvidia-graphics7676 
nvidia-graphics7676-kmdl-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4
  nvidia-graphics7676-libs
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 nvidia-glx nvidia-graphics 
nvidia-graphics-devices nvidia-graphics-helpers nvidia-graphics7676
  nvidia-graphics7676-kmdl-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 nvidia-graphics7676-libs
0 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/10.3MB of archives.
After unpacking 31.9MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Committing changes...
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        file /etc/udev/devices/nvidia0 conflicts between attempted 
installs of nvidia-glx-1.0.7676-0.lvn.2.4 and 
nvidia-graphics-devices-1.0-4.rhfc4.at
        file /etc/udev/devices/nvidia1 conflicts between attempted 
installs of nvidia-glx-1.0.7676-0.lvn.2.4 and 
nvidia-graphics-devices-1.0-4.rhfc4.at
        file /etc/udev/devices/nvidia2 conflicts between attempted 
installs of nvidia-glx-1.0.7676-0.lvn.2.4 and 
nvidia-graphics-devices-1.0-4.rhfc4.at
        file /etc/udev/devices/nvidia3 conflicts between attempted 
installs of nvidia-glx-1.0.7676-0.lvn.2.4 and 
nvidia-graphics-devices-1.0-4.rhfc4.at
        file /etc/udev/devices/nvidiactl conflicts between attempted 
installs of nvidia-glx-1.0.7676-0.lvn.2.4 and 
nvidia-graphics-devices-1.0-4.rhfc4.at
E: Error while running transaction


After doing this and putting the file back to normal I can still do a 
dist-upgrade without any errors.