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Thread ID: 11714	2001-10-03 11:14:00	Linux RPM giving me a hard time	Guest (0)	Press F1

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19939	2001-10-03 11:14:00	Hey there, another small question - I downloaded the accelerated Nvidia drivers for my TNT2 off of their website, but upon trying to install the first of two RPM files (NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-1541.rh71up.i386.rpm), I get the following error: 'error: NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-1541.rh71up.i386.rpm does not appear to be a RPM package' This is confusing, and I've redownloaded the files twice, so either Nvidia have packaged this file incorrectly, or yeah, something is wrong. I'm using the command 'rpm -ivh NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-1541.rh71up.i386.rpm' and am ending up with the above error. Suggestions, fixes, anything? :) please help me - I can't take much more of this low refresh rate - my eyes are in pain :) Thanks alot to everyone so far, Jonathan Giles	Guest (0)
19940	2001-10-03 22:45:00	Hi, just had a look at the site and agree you have got the right ones, All I can think of is emailing there support and asking them because your right they should work! Sorry I can't be more help Craig	Guest (0)
19941	2001-10-03 23:05:00	Thanks, I wasn't sure who's problem it was, I'm going to email them now - here's hoping for a quick response - this flickering is killing me :) Thanks alot, Jonathan	Guest (0)
19942	2001-10-03 23:08:00	Actually, I note they have slightly older drivers available to download also, so I think I might give the most recent of those a download. And then I'll just wait for the next release - they probably just packaged them incorrectly. Cheers, Jonathan	Guest (0)
19943	2001-10-04 06:50:00	If RPM says that, it is generally right. Are you sure that the FTP download was in binary mode? This has always been a nasty trap. ASCII files transmitted as binary are salvageable ... binary files transmitted in ASCII mode are *spoiled*(to put it politely. (To say nothing of the files in Simtel which were once stored on a couple of DEC-10s in the US desert). If you have successfully downloaded most of the RH distrib. your system must have been defaulting to binary, but has something changed?	Guest (0)
19944	2001-10-05 01:35:00	Nothings changed, downloaded these two RPM's in the same fashion as I downloaded Redhat Linx 7.1. I also tried the .tar.gz files, got errors with those too. Anyways, I'll give it a try later in the year, Jonathan	Guest (0)
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