install of nVidia 3d support screwed up Yum and others

[marknvicf]

At the site http://www.fedorafaq.org/#flash, as "3. Q: How do I enable 3D support for my nVidia graphics card in Fedora?'", I ran the following command:

yum install --disablerepo=freshrpms kmod-nvidia

After that, I could no longer run Yumex, yum, and others. Sorry I don't have those errors to put in here, but I am not at home, and the fresh install wrote over it anyway. Synaptic still worked, but would not reinstall yum or yumex with a bunch of errors regarding various python.so files. I also could not uninstall yumex, etc, nor then do a fresh install. All the python.so files listed in the error window were not on my harddrive after running the above command.

Since I had just put FC9 x86_64 on my machine, it was easier to do a complete new install.

But I was wondering if anyone understands how the yum --install..., command could have wreaked such havoc. My machine has a dual core Athlon chip, and an Nvidia 5700 video card, in case that makes any difference.

Mark

[JohnVV]

well if you installed that yum gonfig/setup ( installing "yum-priorities ") .It uses freshrpm which is incompatible with the recommend one " lvina " .
also yum-priorities has given me nothing but headaches , in the past, so i have not used it since fedora6 .
I would say you probably have conflicting repos installed
can you run

yum repolist

and if not look in /etc/yum.repos.d open each one a look for this line
" enabled=1 "
if it is there post the name of the file here
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did not read far enough

Since I had just put FC9 x86_64 on my machine, it was easier to do a complete new install.

But I was wondering if anyone understands how the yum --install..., command could have wreaked such havoc.

conflicting repos
and see 32 bit
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mj...f9.html#nvidia
http://www.dnmouse.org/nvidia.html
for the driver and change the how to to suite your 64 bit install