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Redhat 8 question (I did a search)

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Vadatajs

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I just finished installing redhat 8 on my linux box, the new interface is pretty, but useless, and not as easy to change, but that's not my problem.

I'm trying to install the nvidia drivers for my geforce 2 card, but when I try to rpm --rebuild the source rpm's it tells me --rebuild: unknown option. This has always worked for me in the past, and I'm wondering if anybody knows why it's not working now. I don't care if I get the drivers installed, I don't play any games, but it would be nice to be able to install other source rpm's in the future.
 
I remember having this problem a while ago, i think it was b/c you didn't have kernel source installed on your system (i could be wrong). Since it has to rebuild the rpm, it needs the kernel source to build its module for.

Try that, see if it works, and if i'm wrong, my advice comes with no warranty (explicit or otherwise 😉
 
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ok, I'll take a look. I thought redhat installed the kernel source by default.


EDIT: I looked, kernel source is installed. When I type rpm --help, rebuild isn't even listed.
 
Never use those darn NVidia RPMs. The tarballs are much easier to maintain, and has a much better chance of working. As long as you install/compile the NVIDIA_kernel package before the NVIDIA_GLX package, you should be good to go. Then just make sure to disable GLCore, and DRI in /etc/X11/XF86Config(-4), and change the driver from 'nv' to 'nvidia'.
 
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