[CentOS] nvidia on 7.6

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Wed, 6 Mar 2019 at 17:50, Phil Perry <pperry at elrepo.org> wrote:
>
> On 06/03/2019 21:53, Pete Geenhuizen wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 03/06/2019 04:21 PM, Phil Perry wrote:
> >> On 06/03/2019 19:30, Pete Geenhuizen wrote:
> >>>
> >>> That is all good and well, but my problem is that I now can't install
> >>>
> >>> vlc smplayer mplayer, or  ffmpeg-libs because they need
> >>> ocl-icd-2.2.12-1.el7.x86_64from epel.
> >>> I tried to roll back to the previous version via yum history undo but
> >>> previous versions are no longer avaialble.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Do they have a hard coded Requires for the ocl-icd package or just an
> >> auto-generated Requires for the libOpenCL.so lib?
> >>
> >> If it's the former then the packages in epel need fixing. If it's the
> >> latter then the nvidia package will meet that requirement. You can
> >> either force uninstall ocl-icd, or uninstall ocl-icd and any
> >> dependencies, install/update the nvidia packages and then reinstall
> >> the package you require that depend on libOpenCL.so
> > Phil,
> > I don't know if it's a hard coded requires ot auto-generated.
> > Right now I've removed the rpms that need ocl-icd, updated nvidia but
> > when I attempt to install vlc smplayer mplayer, or  ffmpeg-libs it fails
> > because it wants to install ocl-icd-2.2.12-1.el7.x86_64 from epel.
> > I guess that that means that its a hard coded requirement, is that correct?
> > Pete
> >
>
> I guess so. Running 'rpm -q --requires <package>' would tell you.
>
> I only have vlc and ffmpeg-libs installed, and both are installed from
> the Nux repo. Neither are built against libOpenCL.so so I'm not able to
> comment on what epel have done with their packages.
>

As far as I can tell the packages vlc, smplayer, mplayer, and ffmpeg
aren't in EPEL. I am guessing they are from rpmfusion but could be
from some other repository.





-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.