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NVIDIA Kernel Module Compilation

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

apt-get install nvidia-kernel-source nvidia-kernel-common nvidia-settings nvidia-xconfig module-assistant cd /usr/src tar -zvxf nvidia-kernel-source.tar.gz CC=/usr/bin/gcc-4.0 module-assistant --unpack-once build nvidia dpkg -i nvidia-kernel-2.6.16-2-686-smp*.deb

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CPAN and RPMs can hold hands

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

cpan2rpm generates RPM packages from Perl modules. It generates the
required SPEC files and builds the packages using rpm. cpan2rpm
automatically downloads the module from CPAN, or it can be built from
local files.

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Old FC4 Yum install got you down?

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e Public key for autoconf-2.59-5.noarch.rpm is not installed Retrieving GPG key from file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora GPG key at file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora (0×4F2A6FD2) is already installed The GPG keys listed for the “Fedora Core 4 - i386 - Base” repository are already installed but they are not correct for this package. Check that the correct key URLs are configured for this repository.

Try
rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY*

(use at your own risk)

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