[pkg-nvidia-devel] debian stable + nvidia driver

[Christian Kastner]

On 06/09/2010 02:34 PM, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> 
>>   I then tried to compile the nvidia-graphics-drivers on my amd64,
> Which version?
> 
>> since it now requires ia32-libs  (>= 20090804) [amd64]. I do not care
>> about any ia32 stuff, so I simply remove all references to ia32 from
>> the debian/control file and then compiled it by hand:
> 
> I just tried to compile 195.36.24-3 (not released yet, from svn trunk)
> in lenny+backports by disabling all *-ia32 packages and their
> Build-Depends, but got stuck here:
> 
> Depends: debhelper (>= 7.4.16~)
> 
> According to apt-cache, these versions are available:
>      7.4.11~bpo50+1 0
>      7.0.15 0
> 
> So unless someone updates the debhelper backport in lenny, I'm not
> continuing on this road.

No need to backport, you can just install the version from unstable - it
has the same dependencies as the backport, and I couldn't see anything
in the changelog that would indicate a problem.

Apart from the ia32-libs stuff above, backporting the driver requires
at least reverting part of r828, because after that, it breaks
xserver-xorg-core (<< 2:1.6). I have it a try yesterday and it worked,
but I'm sure I missed some stuff.