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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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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AJackson wrote:

> On Mar 15, 1:48 am, Geico Caveman <spammers-go-h...@spam.invalid>
> wrote: 
>
> 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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> 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 ra
w
> 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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AJackson wrote:
 
> 
>
> 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

The source of the package is not available completely. This package is
listed in non-free.

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