I had the same problem recently, I solved it by manually downloading it with wget, just do wget --no-check-certificate URL, then copy over to /usr/portage/distfiles and rerun emerge command.
Lucien On 17:29 Tue 15 Nov , James wrote: > Hello > > I've been trying to emerge (install): > media-video/realplayer > > I get this error message: > <snip> > Connecting to helixcommunity.org|207.188.25.135|:443... connected. > ERROR: Certificate verification error for helixcommunity.org: unable to get > local issuer certificate > To connect to helixcommunity.org insecurely, use `--no-check-certificate'. > Unable to establish SSL connection. > <snip> > > I've tried the "--no-check-certificate" as both an emerge option > and as a USE flag, to no avail. > > So what am I missing to get the 'emerge realplayer' to work? > > James > > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list