Nvidia drivers: repositories could not be added

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Hi everyone,

I’m having an issue installing the nvidia proprietary drivers in openSUSE. I’ve googled a bit to try and find an answer but nothing I’ve found seems to be straight-forward.

I went to the following link to install the drivers and clicked on the first one as I have a 550 Ti
SDB:NVIDIA drivers - openSUSE

Went through the install and it said:
*The following repositories could not be added
*ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/12.2/

I found the below command from a forum post I came across… not sure if this helps at all. I’m very new to openSUSE, so if someone could help me out I’d really appreciate it. Thanks.

zypper lr -d

paul@linux-ehlu:~> zypper lr -d
# | Alias                     | Name                               | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type   | URI                                                             | Service
--+---------------------------+------------------------------------+---------+---------+----------+--------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+--------
1 | repo-debug                | openSUSE-12.2-Debug                | No      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/12.2/repo/oss/  |        
2 | repo-debug-update         | openSUSE-12.2-Update-Debug         | No      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/12.2/                 |        
3 | repo-debug-update-non-oss | openSUSE-12.2-Update-Debug-Non-Oss | No      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/12.2-non-oss/         |        
4 | repo-non-oss              | openSUSE-12.2-Non-Oss              | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.2/repo/non-oss/    |        
5 | repo-oss                  | openSUSE-12.2-Oss                  | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.2/repo/oss/        |        
6 | repo-source               | openSUSE-12.2-Source               | No      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/12.2/repo/oss/ |        
7 | repo-update               | openSUSE-12.2-Update               | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.2/                       |        
8 | repo-update-non-oss       | openSUSE-12.2-Update-Non-Oss       | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.2-non-oss/               |
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My advise is to follow the repository way, via zypper … :expressionless:

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Which is as follows

su -
zypper ar -f ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/12.2/ nvidia

zypper ref
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On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 17:16:03 GMT
paul esque <paul_esque@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

> I’m having an issue installing the nvidia proprietary drivers in
> openSUSE. I’ve googled a bit to try and find an answer but nothing
> I’ve found seems to be straight-forward.

I’ve just used the YaST system to add the repository and had no trouble.
Not that I use the nVidia driver myself as nouveau works OK for me.

YaST - Software - Software Repositories - Add. Select “Communitory
Repositories” radio button and click on “Next”. Select “nVidia Graphic
Drivers” from the list and click “OK”.

–
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
openSUSE 12.2 (64-bit); KDE 4.9.3; AMD Phenom II X2 550 Processor;
Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (using nouveau driver);
Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA); Wireless: BCM4306