A significant number or users install the proprietary Nvidia drivers immediatly after installing Fedora. F11 no longer installs binutils by default which is required by the Nvidia installer. Nvidia has a clear error when this happens telling the user to install Binutils and it was easy to do from Add/Remove Software. However, as a better experience with a pretty common usage senerio installing binutils by default should be considered. How reproducible: ------------------ 1) Boot the F11 Live CD 2) Install to Hard Disk 3) Download Linux driver from nvidia.com 4) Run the Nvidia installer Actual results: ------------------ Install throws an error after unpacking that you need to have binutils installed or "ld" in your path. Expected results: ------------------ Install should complete without additional requirements
Nvidia could produce an rpm which has proper deps listed, or they could get this crap upstream.