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Creating Debian packages for nvidia
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| Geico Caveman 2007-03-15, 1:14 am |
| Hello,
I am using Debian Etch. I need to update my nvidia drivers but the debian
drivers are fairly old for etch. I want to be able to create nvidia-*
debian packages from the nvidia driver downloaded from nvidia's website. I
regularly use checkinstall for creating debian packages but that presumes
a ./configure/make/make install type of work flow.
How are the nvidia packages in non-free created, btw. ?
Thanks.
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| AJackson 2007-03-17, 7:13 pm |
| On Mar 15, 1:48 am, Geico Caveman <spammers-go-h...@spam.invalid>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using Debian Etch. I need to update my nvidia drivers but the debian
> drivers are fairly old for etch. I want to be able to create nvidia-*
> debian packages from the nvidia driver downloaded from nvidia's website. I
> regularly use checkinstall for creating debian packages but that presumes
> a ./configure/make/make install type of work flow.
>
> How are the nvidia packages in non-free created, btw. ?
Please do search on http://wiki.debian.org/ where there is a large
page where three different ways of installing video drivers for nVidia
is described. You should be abel to find a good way of installing
nVidias binary driver there, that suits you.
Good luck
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| Geico Caveman 2007-03-19, 7:14 pm |
| AJackson wrote:
> On Mar 15, 1:48 am, Geico Caveman <spammers-go-h...@spam.invalid>
> wrote:
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> Please do search on http://wiki.debian.org/ where there is a large
> page where three different ways of installing video drivers for nVidia
> is described. You should be abel to find a good way of installing
> nVidias binary driver there, that suits you.
>
> Good luck
Thanks for your effort, but I do not think you bothered to read my question
before responding to it. I know how to install packages - from nvidia's raw
drivers and from Debian packages.
I am looking for a way to *CREATE* (yes, create) Debian packages, given
nvidia's drivers from their website.
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| AJackson 2007-03-21, 1:14 pm |
| > Thanks for your effort, but I do not think you bothered to read my question
> before responding to it. I know how to install packages - from nvidia's raw
> drivers and from Debian packages.
> I am looking for a way to *CREATE* (yes, create) Debian packages, given
> nvidia's drivers from their website.
Download source of package with apt-get source pk
Look at how they do it there. There are som scripts in a Debian
directory. There is also some dokumentation for packagers at www.debian.org
somewhere.
http://www.us.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals#maint-guide
Oh, it's some packages with documentation: maint-guide and dpkg-doc
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| Geico Caveman 2007-03-21, 7:13 pm |
| AJackson wrote:
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> Download source of package with apt-get source pk
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> Look at how they do it there. There are som scripts in a Debian
> directory. There is also some dokumentation for packagers at
> www.debian.org somewhere.
> http://www.us.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals#maint-guide
> Oh, it's some packages with documentation: maint-guide and dpkg-doc
The source of the package is not available completely. This package is
listed in non-free.
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