This one time, at band camp, Ian Tester said:
>On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Craige McWhirter wrote:
>
>> There's going to be some long answers to this one. I'll focus mine on
>> the RealPlayer:
>>
>> Nothing.
>>
>> Don't download the RPM, down load the Tarball which has an installer in
>> it and you are off and running (worked fine on my Debian system).
>
>Gee, I've always just used the debian package that comes with debian. The
>post-install asks you to download the RPM and put it in /root. I guess it
>then uses Alien to convert it or something.
realplayer depends on rpm, debian actually extracts the rpm to a sandbox
and moves the contents to the Correct(tm) locations.
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