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Re: real player version 7



On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 10:46:23AM -0400, AR wrote:
> Bud Rogers wrote:
> 
> > On Sunday 08 April 2001 09:09, AR wrote:
> > > I need the rpm real player 7, for 2 reasons: It is the version that the
> > > debian installer requests, and it is the version that is supposed to
> > > work with vsound. But in www.real.com they have now  version 8. Does any
> > > one know where it can be fetched from, or can some one make it available
> > > for download?
> >
> > I went through a similar version mismatch problem installing realplayer some
> > time ago.  At the time the name of the binary file available from real.com
> > and the filename expected by the installer were only different by one
> > character.  I just renamed the downloaded file to match what the installer
> > expected.  It installed without complaint and seems to work just fine.  YMMV,
> > but it's worth a try.
> >
> > --
> > Bud Rogers <budr@sirinet.net>   http://www.sirinet.net/~budr
> > All things in moderation.  And not too much moderation either.
> >
> 
> Tried it, didn't work. Complains about not finding some directory.

Yeah the installer is looking for a directory in the realplayer package
that is different between version 7 and version 8.  I edited
/var/lib/dpkg/info/realplayer* to change references from
/usr/lib/RealPlayer7 to /usr/lib/RealPlayer8 and it worked.  Using the
/version from unstable will also work and is easier.

Bob



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