RealPlayer installer problem
Hello to the group. I'm not currently a subscriber, but do have a question. I recently upgraded for the latest/greatest. Am running potato 2.2.14. All went well with the update except for the RealPlayer install. The installer came as part of the upgrade, but the program has to be retrieved manually. The installer is set up for rp7, but the only version currently available is rp8. I could not fool the installer by renaming the app. The filename called for is: rp7_linux20_libc6_i386_b2_rpm Is this available anywhere? Or is there some way to slap the installer around to accept the rp8 file? 73, JC Portlock KE6UME VP HARC [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 14481033 === Nothing but Pure kmail/KDE/X/Debian/Linux No windows died in the composing of this message. === Professionals built the Titanic, but Amateurs built the Ark. === Support Amateur Radio and Support Debian Linux ===
Re: RealPlayer installer problem
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, JC Portlock wrote: The installer is set up for rp7, but the only version currently available is rp8. I could not fool the installer by renaming the app. The filename called for is: rp7_linux20_libc6_i386_b2_rpm Is this available anywhere? Or is there some way to slap the installer around to accept the rp8 file? I found that an easy solution was to simply grab the realplayer package from unstable, and install that instead. It expects the current rp8 file. -- David Steinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RealPlayer installer problem
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 01:14:35PM -0800, JC Portlock wrote: Hello to the group. I'm not currently a subscriber, but do have a question. I recently upgraded for the latest/greatest. Am running potato 2.2.14. All went well with the update except for the RealPlayer install. The installer came as part of the upgrade, but the program has to be retrieved manually. The installer is set up for rp7, but the only version currently available is rp8. I could not fool the installer by renaming the app. The filename called for is: rp7_linux20_libc6_i386_b2_rpm Is this available anywhere? Or is there some way to slap the installer around to accept the rp8 file? As I posted several days ago, I got it to install by editing /var/lib/dpkg/info/realplayer/postinst to change the references to /usr/lib/RealPlayer7 to /usr/lib/RealPlayer8 (I also made the same change in realplayer.prerm so the next upgrade doesn't get hosed. --- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen
Re: RealPlayer installer problem
JC Portlock wrote: installer is set up for rp7, but the only version currently available is rp8. I could not fool the installer by renaming the app. The filename called for is: rp7_linux20_libc6_i386_b2_rpm Is this available anywhere? Or is there some way to slap the installer around to accept the rp8 file? As mentioned earlier on the list (hint hint), you can either edit the stable realplayer package (not too hard) or you can install the realplayer package from unstable (also not too hard, assuming the dependencies are ok). To do the former, # dpkg --unpack realplayer.deb # vi /var/lib/dpkg/info/realplayer.postinst (replace all occurances of RealPlayer7 with RealPlayer8) # dpkg --configure realplayer skip the --unpack step if you already have the package half-way installed (i.e. you tried to install it and it bombed on you). To do the latter, fetch the realplayer package from site/debian/pool/contrib/r/realplayer using your favorite tool (apt-get, wget, whatever) and install it.
Re: RealPlayer installer problem
This worked for me, probably *not* the right way to do it, but I renamed the file to end in .rpm and used alien -i [filename] and it installed and is working. JC Portlock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello to the group. I'm not currently a subscriber, but do have a question. I recently upgraded for the latest/greatest. Am running potato 2.2.14. All went well with the update except for the RealPlayer install. The installer came as part of the upgrade, but the program has to be retrieved manually. The installer is set up for rp7, but the only version currently available is rp8. I could not fool the installer by renaming the app. The filename called for is: rp7_linux20_libc6_i386_b2_rpm Is this available anywhere? Or is there some way to slap the installer around to accept the rp8 file? 73, JC Portlock KE6UME VP HARC [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 14481033 === Nothing but Pure kmail/KDE/X/Debian/Linux No windows died in the composing of this message. === Professionals built the Titanic, but Amateurs built the Ark. === Support Amateur Radio and Support Debian Linux === -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
