Nvidia Driver - RPM free/non free loading site

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When I search how to load nvidia in many sites, I am seeing this command to enable RPM free and non-free repos Example

sudo dnf install \
https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

sudo dnf install \
https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

Meanwhile in the main RPM page, its claimed that to enable free/non-free RPM ı have to write RPM Fusion

sudo dnf install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

are they the same or is there a difference ?

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This is on rpmfusions configuration page

sudo dnf install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

You can also use the graphical setup by clicking and letting gnome software install them.

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In general, since RPM Fusion are providing the driver, their information is to be considered authoritative. For Nvidia, that would be:

https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA

The links you’ve noted are different, but they point to the same resources. The difference is that the RPM Fusion page makes you use a mirror URL which will redirect you to a mirror close to you, while the other URLs are using the RPM Fusion download server (not sure if this redirects to a mirror either). In both cases, though, you will receive the same file.

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This is no different than the below. The shell sees “\” as a continuation character at the end of the line and continues the command by reading the next line as well.

sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm