I posted about this once before both here and on a debian list, but since
i got no response and it's been a while, thought I would try again.
I have trplayer_1.2.0-1_i386.deb installed on my system. I also have
realplayer8.0-2_i386.deb which I got from using alien with
RealPlayer-8.0-1.i386.rpm.
This works just fine.
However, I am using debian woody and there is a package called realplayer,
which isn't really realplayer but just an installer for realplayer. You
are supposed to go and download a realplayer package,
rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2_rpm, tell the installer where the package is,
and have it installed. Whenever I do "apt-get upgraede" debian tries to
implement this installer. Whether I say I want to use the installer now,
it undoes my current installation so that i have to re-install realplayer,
not a long process since I keep the .deb package right on my system to
re-install but still a pain. I've tried totally uninstalling my package
and letting the installer do its thing; I'd be glad to go download the
other file to stop this problem, but even when I do that I get told that
errors were encountered and the package (just the installer; it never gets
as far as asking me where the realplayer package itself is) is left
neither fully installed or un-installed.
At first I thought I had messed something up by installing a different
realplayer package, though purging it should have allowed me to start over
and install using the installer, but in setting up a computer for friends,
I tried to use the installer without ever having put my alien-made package
on the system, and dpkg still returned error code 1 and left it neither
fully installed or un-installed.
I want to be able to do one of two things:
(1) have the installer install the realplayer package it wants, which I
will gladly download if the system would ever let me get that far;
or
(2) get a hold put on this particular package so that debian doesn't keep
trying to uninstall my working system and leave me stuck with a
non-working installer.
I have checked the dependencies for this installer and supposedly I have
everything that should be there for it to work.
Any help would be appreciated.
I am especially unhappy about this situation because my friends for whom I
am setting up a computer are newbies and aren't going to like the hassle
of continually re-installing realplayer!
Thanks.
--
Cheryl
