[CentOS] nvidia on 7.6

[Phil Perry]

On 06/03/2019 23:03, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> 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.
> 

Thank you Stephen. I assumed because they were pulling a dependency from 
epel that they were also from epel.