OK. I’ve gotten, from Nvidia, the 64bit driver for my card. After typing, sudo sh <filename>, I get, cc not in your path.
What do I need to do, is this a C compiler? Isn’t gcc already installed by default.
Oh yes, I just installed OpenSUSE within the hour. Totally new to SUSE, and almost new to Linux.
Just trying to give several distros a trial run.
Thanks for any assist.
Hold off on installation right now, I think some of the servers are down for the moment.
Thanks, that’s nice to know. Yast was freezing up. Warning flags would be a nice feature, rather than inexplicable lock-up.
I write now, having yanked OpenSUSE off my HD. I figured that if repositories couldn’t operate correctly, I didn’t want any part of such a distro.
Yast-lock = bad PR. Maybe I’m impatient, or maybe I’ve got a type of software shell-shock from too many years of abuse by Redmond. Yast locking up reminded me of W95. Ha! So I killed it.
Insert flames here ==>
gcc is a symlink to the installed gcc version. It sometimes points to a file which doesn’t exist anymore.
Here’s how to fix it :
cd /usr/bin
find . -name “gcc-*” -exec ln -sf “{}” gcc “;”
Nope, problem is this one: OP tries to install the NVIDIA driver without having a proper kernel-developent environment. Installing the Linux Kernel Development Pattern would have solved this.
carbonbased wrote:
>
> OK. I’ve gotten, from Nvidia, the 64bit driver for my card. After
> typing, sudo sh <filename>, I get, cc not in your path.
>
> What do I need to do, is this a C compiler? Isn’t gcc already
> installed by default.
>
> Oh yes, I just installed OpenSUSE within the hour. Totally new to
> SUSE, and almost new to Linux.
>
> Just trying to give several distros a trial run.
>
> Thanks for any assist.
>
Do you have the following prereqs installed?
Prerequisites
compiler gcc,
program make
package kernel-source
package kernel-syms
11.2
package kernel-desktop-devel
Also checkout:
http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA/The_hard_way Note: if you use the hard-
way you will have to rebuild the module after kernel updates. Better
to use YaST, just make sure the prereqs are install. They can also be
installed from YaSt.
Hope this helps.
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Russ
[openSUSE 11.2 (2.6.31.8-0.1-desktop, x86_64] KDE 4.3.4 release 2,
Intel Core 2 Dual E7200, 4 GB RAM, GeForce 8400 GS, 320GB Disc (2)