Re: Where are the nvidia Drivers?

[Adam Majer <adamm@zombino.com>]

Rafael Steiner wrote:

>Hi
>
>Today I installed Debian amd64 but I can't install the NVIDIA drivers, the
>NVIDIA-settings and NVIDIA-kernel-common Packages are available but
>nvidia-kernel-source and nvidia-glx not.
>I have the ftp.de.debian.org with main, contrib and non-free in my sources
>list, I also tried to add the Swiss switch mirror, but apt-cache still cant
>find them. Is this a temporary problem or are they removed from the archive
>forever?
>
>Should I wait until this is fixed, install them manually or take the ubuntu
>packages?
>  
>
They are right there,

http://amd64.debian.net/debian-amd64/pool/non-free/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers/

but,

http://amd64.debian.net/debian-amd64/dists/sid/non-free/binary-amd64/
http://amd64.debian.net/debian-amd64/dists/sarge/non-free/binary-amd64/

are empty! Only in the sources directory do I see something,

http://amd64.debian.net/debian-amd64/dists/sarge/non-free/source/

Why are there no non-free Packages files for binaries? There are only
Sources.

- Adam

PS. Rafael, to install these packages now  you will need to go to the
first link, download the necessary packages from there and install them
with dpkg (dpkg -i <package filename>). You probably will want to
install all the debs from the first link.