Ignoring a 'python(abi) = 3.6' dependency on Rocky Linux 9

[youssefeldakar]

We have one cluster that has Nvidia Tesla K80 GPUs that we are reinstalling as Rocky Linux 9. As the K80 works only with the legacy 470 driver branch, I added the repo for ‘rhel8’ from Nvidia:

dnf config-manager --add-repo https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/rhel8/x86_64/cuda-rhel8.repo

Then attempted the module install:

dnf module install nvidia-driver:470

This, however, fails on missing python(abi) = 3.6 dependency:

- nothing provides python(abi) = 3.6 needed by dnf-plugin-nvidia-2.0-1.el8.noarch

The following post (which is now closed) suggests this can be simply ignored:

Cuda 11.4 on Rocky 9 Linux

--skip-broken ends up not installing the needed packages, and I have not been able to figure out how to tell dnf to ignore this missing dependency (which would seem reasonable, since this is Rocky Linux 9 with the newer python 3.9 rather than 3.6).

Any pointers are much appreciated.

[jlehtone]

RPM Fusion repos do offer the 470xx for el9.

You could try to install the GPU driver from there, and then add CUDA from NVidia’s repo.

[youssefeldakar]

Thanks - installing from RPM Fusion did work:

sudo dnf install akmog-nvidia-470xx  # and optionally 'xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-470xx-cuda' for CUDA