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I had tried to intall NVIDIA IA32 driver(6629-pkg1) under exiting X environment. during the installing, i get a trouble about this message: "No precompiled kenerl interface was found to match your kenerl. Need to install the development tool 'cc' which is package 'gcc'." how can i do???
You can download gcc from gcc.gnu.org and try compiling from source but most distrobutions have this program as a precompiled package and since your asking this I'd suggest you hit up your distros website and search for gcc there
what happens after that?
doesn't it ask you to automatically download a kernel interface from nvidia's ftp site?
and after that one more thing:
doesn't it ask you if you want nvidia driver's installer to compile your kernel in way that it works???
Originally posted by JoannesX what happens after that?
doesn't it ask you to automatically download a kernel interface from nvidia's ftp site?
and after that one more thing:
doesn't it ask you if you want nvidia driver's installer to compile your kernel in way that it works???
That should be happening...
yes, it had asked me but it can't reach anything to download it. why?
Originally posted by kinney You can download gcc from gcc.gnu.org and try compiling from source but most distrobutions have this program as a precompiled package and since your asking this I'd suggest you hit up your distros website and search for gcc there
ya, i had already downloaded gcc but didn't know how to use it...
I don't use debian but I know they use the apt-get command and I'm pretty sure you can use that to install packages from the internet. I think it would be something like
apt-get install gcc
but dont quote me on that I could be wrong. Try it though and if it installs gcc you should be good to go with the NVIDIA installation
Originally posted by kinney I don't use debian but I know they use the apt-get command and I'm pretty sure you can use that to install packages from the internet. I think it would be something like
apt-get install gcc
but dont quote me on that I could be wrong. Try it though and if it installs gcc you should be good to go with the NVIDIA installation
i had already install gcc from cd-rom that command is "apt-get install gcc", but how can i up-to-date from internet by commands?
@_@ the danger problem still exist, the error messages show that, Unable to find the kernel source tree for the currently running kernel, ......, do i need to install kernel source? I had used this command "apt-get install kernel-source" whereas nvidia driver has problem. Beforce I had tried this, "apt-get install gcc", "apt-get install make". but still get problem.
Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface
WARNING: Skipping the runlevel check (the utility `runlevel` failed to run).
-> License accepted.
-> No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel; would you li
ke the installer to attempt to download a kernel interface for your kernel f
rom the NVIDIA ftp site (ftp://download.nvidia.com)? (Answer: Yes)
-> No matching precompiled kernel interface was found on the NVIDIA ftp site;
this means that the installer will need to compile a kernel interface for
your kernel.
ERROR: Unable to find the kernel source tree for the currently running kernel.
Please make sure you have installed the kernel source files for your
kernel; on Red Hat Linux systems, for example, be sure you have the
'kernel-source' rpm installed. If you know the correct kernel source
files are installed, you may specify the kernel source path with the
'--kernel-source-path' commandline option.
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