[solved] fglrx depend? I have NVIDIA!

Question

Okay, take a look.
So simple programs, so many weird dependencies, it doesn't make any sense, especially the radeon utility program fglrx-utils, xinetd, and netbsd-bsd-finger.
I DO NOT have a Radeon graphics card! I have an Nvidia, using the official nvidia drivers.
[root@dezza dezza]# pacman -S perlpanel
resolving dependencies... done.
looking for inter-conflicts... done.
Targets: audiofile-0.2.6-3 esd-0.2.38-3 xinetd-2.3.14-2
netkit-bsd-finger-0.17-3 fglrx-utils-8.40.4-1 xmms-1.2.10-9
perl-xmms-0.12-2 perlxml-2.34-4 perl-xml-simple-2.18-1
glib-perl-1.144-1 cairo-perl-1.041-1 gtk2-perl-1.146-1
glade-perl-1.006-1 perl-extutils-depends-0.205-2
perl-extutils-pkgconfig-1.07-2 libart-lgpl-2.3.19-1
libgnomecanvas-2.14.0-2 gnomecanvas-perl-1.002-3
gnome-vfs-perl-1.061-1 libbonobo-2.18.0-2 libgnome-2.18.0-2
libbonoboui-2.18.0-2 gnome-keyring-0.8.1-2 libgnomeui-2.18.1-2
gnome-perl-1.042-1 perl-gnome2-wnck-0.12-4
perl-locale-gettext-1.05-2 perl-date-manip-5.44-2 perlpanel-0.9.1-3
Total Package Size: 19,68 MB
Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
[root@dezza dezza]# pacman -S xfe
resolving dependencies... done.
looking for inter-conflicts... done.
Targets: fglrx-utils-8.40.4-1 glproto-1.4.8-1 mesa-6.5.2-1 fox-1.6.29-1
xfe-1.04-1 xinetd-2.3.14-2 netkit-bsd-finger-0.17-3
Total Package Size: 15,67 MB
Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
I would really like to know what causes this, cause it will overwrite my libGL libraries and mesa where pacman is my savior:
checking package integrity... done.
cleaning up... done.
(7/7) checking for file conflicts [#####################] 100%
error: could not prepare transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
fglrx-utils: /usr/lib/libGL.so exists in filesystem
fglrx-utils: /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 exists in filesystem
fglrx-utils: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so exists in filesystem
mesa: /usr/include/GL/gl.h exists in filesystem
mesa: /usr/include/GL/glext.h exists in filesystem
mesa: /usr/include/GL/glx.h exists in filesystem
mesa: /usr/include/GL/glxext.h exists in filesystem
errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
I would really much like to know what the cause of this problem is and how to fix it, or where in the database pacman screws up?
Last edited by dezza (2007-10-07 11:44:36)

Answer 1

dezza wrote:
I did like you told me, created a libgl dummy pkg with no files in it, and installed it.
Then mesa still is a depend of xfe and many packages as well, and if I try to install mesa:
mesa: /usr/include/GL/gl.h exists in filesystem
mesa: /usr/include/GL/glext.h exists in filesystem
mesa: /usr/include/GL/glx.h exists in filesystem
mesa: /usr/include/GL/glxext.h exists in filesystem
So I create another mesa dummy package and installed that aswell.
Now I am missing "libGLU.so.1" when trying to start programs that depend on mesa (such as xfe), so the official NVIDIA drivers provide these files that is with the mesa package, but is missing "libGLU.so.1", is there an alternative library that provides it, or should I make another workaround or what is the proper way to fix this? I like having a custom kernel, and from what I've read the nvidia package from pacman only works with stock kernels.
pacman -S nvidia-utils. Includes the userspace stuff, doesnt include the kernel module.
Even better, would be to install the nvidia module with pacman, take the 'nvidia' PKGBUILD, change pkgname, adjust _kernver, fix the dependencies, and build.
James