Nvida-inst and (steam)vulkan dependency unresolved

Hey there,
I have following problem when running the nvidia-inst command in terminal:
removing lib32-nvidia-utils breaks dependency 'lib32-vulkan-driver' required by steam.
I tried syncing my mirror and reinstalling steam from the nvida-util provider but i still get this error.
Fyi I have an amd cpu and nvida gpu (GTX 1060).
Iā€™d appreciate your help :smiley:

Welcome to the forum! :smile:

Could you show the full command you did and the full output?

I used nvidia-inst:

> nvidia-inst
2023-12-06 21:27:04: Info: Running: nvidia-inst v23.1-1
2023-12-06 21:27:04: Info: Command line: nvidia-inst 
2023-12-06 21:27:04: Info: Selected mode: nvidia
NVIDIA card id: 1c03
Fetching driver data from nvidia.com ...
2023-12-06 21:27:08: Info: Removing packages: lib32-nvidia-utils
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
COMMANDS TO RUN:
    pacman -Rs --noconfirm --noprogressbar --nodeps lib32-nvidia-utils
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

==> NOTE: running the commands may take several minutes...

Root Password: 
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing lib32-nvidia-utils breaks dependency 'lib32-vulkan-driver' required by steam

I wanted to update my drivers but i think this is the wrong way. I saw a forum post that says to just use yay, so I think i should stay with yay :')

Had the same issue in the past. I uninstalled steam first, then did the nvidia stuff and finally installed steam again. Worked for me that time.

Alright I will try that.
However this forum post i found (How do I update NVIDIA drivers?) say for updating drivers i can just use yay.

Yeah, nvidia-inst does not take steam into consideration. So as mentioned above, you need to solve the conflict manually by uninstalling the conflicting packages first.

And nvidia-inst is not meant for updating, but initial installing.