On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 20:47, Andree Zeulner wrote: > could someone give me an explanation about how to install the newest > nvidia-drivers? The problem here is, that /usr/lib64 is a symlink to /usr/lib in debian pure64 (though I don't know why that is). The nvidia installer tries to install all its 64bit libs in /usr/lib64 (so they are effectively written to /usr/lib) and then writes the 32bit libs in /usr/lib. That's where you get the error - because the 64bit libs are already there. It's obviously a Bad Thing and I'd like to see this fixed... Whatever, if you don't need the 32bit libraries, then you might just remove the /usr/lib64 symlink and create a real directory instead. Run the installer, then copy the contents of /usr/lib64 over to /usr/lib and make it a symlink again. If you want to use the 32bit libraries as well, you have to manually copy them to /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib - it's probably easiest to tell the nvidia installer to just extract all the files in a directory and then copy them over by hand. > install log from installer: > > Installing 'NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86_64' > (1.0-6111): > ERROR: Unable to determine properties for file > '/usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/extensions/libglx.a' (No such file or > directory). > -> The installer has encountered the following error during installation: > 'Cann > ot backup /usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/extensions/libglx.a'. Continue anyway? > ( > "no" will abort)? (Answer: Yes)
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